[Social Life in the Insect World by J. H. Fabre]@TWC D-Link bookSocial Life in the Insect World CHAPTER XVI 19/34
They are eight in number. At first I see nothing but the inevitable fatigue due to the incidents of exhumation, transport, and confinement in a strange place.
My exiles try to escape: they climb the wire walls, and finally all take to earth at the edge of their enclosure.
Night comes, and all is quiet.
Two hours later I pay my prisoners a last visit.
Three are still buried under a thin layer of sand.
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