Chapter IV The Ants: Civil War — Extermination of the Community
It is the punishment of the tyrant that he cannot readily set free his captive, 271
The caged nightingale, and the clod of earth, 272
This clod proves to contain a republic of carpenter-ants, 272
An effort is made to found a new community; difficulties in the way, 273
An encounter between the carpenter-ants and some mason-ants, 274
In which the victory is on the side of the Little, 275
Who carry off the young of the conquered, 276
A digression comments on the helplessness of the nymph, or larva, 277
And points out its exceeding suffering in the hands of a victorious enemy, 278
The writer is shocked by the relentless cruelty of the conquerors, 279
Who have left but one poor fugitive to mourn the death of his companions, 280