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And here, on a hot summer afternoon, is the Amazon ant, who leaves her barrack rooms in long battalions and marches far afield to hunt for slaves.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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