from the ruins and carry them to a safe place.
Look carefully at the pictures, and you will see that almost every ant
is carrying an egg. They know that if they lose the eggs all the young
ants inside the eggs will be lost too.

While ants do not seem to have a very keen sense of hearing, their sense
of smell is very strong. And where do you think it lies? In the same
little feelers with which they talk to each other. The first ant's
house seen in the round picture has been cut in two to show you how
wonderfully these little creatures can build.

It was made by the ants that live in tropical countries. The house at
the back of the picture has not been disturbed. Does it not look as if
an architect had planned it? Ask some of the older people in your family
to tell you something more about ants. There is much more of interest in
regard to them than I have space to write you.

THE FOOLISH PUG.

A pompous pug once thought that he
A dashing swell would try to be,
And on his neighbors one and all,
Sat out to make a stylish call.

He wore a glass upon one eye,
And on his head a silk hat high;
A wide, stiff collar around his throat,
And last an English overcoat.

So fine and splendid was his air
The very birds stood still to stare,
As walking on his two hind feet
He sauntered boldly down the street.

But oh, alas! it comes to all
To learn that pride must have a fall,
And e'er the corner he had turned
Poor pug that bitter lesson learned.

A saucy maid with one great whack,
Brought down her broom upon his back,
And as he raised a frightened wail
Another soused him from her pail.

Poor pug! that night he sat and thought
Of all the trouble he had brought
Upon himself, because that he
A foolish dude had tried to be.

THE SILHOUETTE PARTY

"Children," said Grandpa, one afternoon, "I am going to build a bonfire
this evening, to burn up this rubbish, so you may have a silhouette
party."

"Why, what is a silhouette party?" asked Lucy, opening her eyes very
wide.

"I know," said Ralph, "it is funny black pictures on something white."

"That's right," laughed Grandpa. "Now you fly round and write your
friends and Grandma and I will get everything ready."

When the young people arrived at half past seven, they found a blazing
fire, and in front of it was stretched a sheet between tw