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might chance to fall from the sacks. Another nest, in a different part of the town, got its principal subsistence from the grains of canary seed, which were scattered by the birds occupying a cage hanging outside a shop window at a little distance.
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Vertical section of an ant's nest. The horizontal lines represent inches of depth.
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