Falling in Love: With Other Essays On More Exact Branches of Science
Falling in Love: With Other Essays On More Exact Branches of Science
Allen Grant
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When they reach a negro village the inhabitants turn out en masse, and run away, exactly as if the visitors were Eng- lish explorers or brave Marines, bent upon retaliating for the theft of a knife by nobly burning down King Tom's town or King Jumbo's capital. Then the negroes wait in the jungle till the little black army has passed on, after clearing out the huts by the way of everything eatable. When they return they find their calabashes and saucepans licked clean, but they also find every r...at, mouse, lizard, cockroach, gecko, and beetle completely cleared out from the whole village. Most of them have cut and run at the first approach of the drivers; of the remainder, a few blanched and neatly-picked skeletons alone remain to tell the tale. As I wish to be considered a veracious historian, I will not retail the further strange stories that still find their GO TO THE ANT 245 way into books of natural history about the manners and habits of these blind marauders. They cross rivers, the West African gossips declare, by a number of devoted in- dividuals flinging themselves first into the water as a living bridge, like so many six-legged Marcus Curtiuses, while over their drowning bodies the heedless remainder march in safety to the other side.
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