In the lengthy experiment of the brick, the two males alone explored the surroundings and set to work to solve the difficulty.

Confiding in their assistance, the female, motionless beneath the Mouse, awaited the result of their investigations.

The tests which are to follow will confirm the merits of these valiant auxiliaries.
In the second place, the point where the Mouse lay being recognized as presenting an insurmountable resistance, there was no grave dug in advance, a little farther off, in the light soil.

All attempts were limited, I repeat, to shallow soundings which informed the insect of the possibility of inhumation.
It is absolute nonsense to speak of their first preparing the grave to which the body will afterwards be carted.

To excavate the soil, our grave-diggers must feel the weight of their dead on their backs.