Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 216
ally makes with them ison encountering their paths on the outskirts of theforest crowded with the ants; one lot carrying off thepieces of leaves, each piece about the size of a sixpence,and held up vertically between the jaws of the ant;another lot hurrying along in an opposite directionempty… … Sets off at Once on Its Return. edge of a leaf, commences to make a circular cut, withits scissor-like jaws, from the edge, its hinder-feet beingthe centre on which it turns. When the piece is nearlycut off, it is still stationed upon it, and it looks asthough it would fall to the ground with it;…
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