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Show m oo II FR0F1 AN AUSTRALIAN DIARY J I Veracious Ants of AH Kinds On Spcciea that Evlncca Fondness 1 I for Sheet Lead. i ! II I About noon it got too hot for az PI I thing and I look a well earned swim in, a secluded creek, amid shoals of P fish, large and small, who apparently 5 resented my Intrusion, from the way 4 they came and stared zt mo. -ggji I found on emerging from the water 5r that a host of blue brown ante had flH taken possession of my clothes, and Bjl when they were shaken out they re- III "venged themselves by biting my bare ITo feet in a w&7 which was exceedingly 111 painful. Jlii There aro thousands of ants every-lj every-lj where, says a writer in the Gcntlo-R Gcntlo-R woman Some of the anthills are PJf thr&e feet high and six feet across j )0.) but except for a sharp nip at the time, tjm the ordinary ant's bite lo not notice-B notice-B able. But if a soldier ant or a bull nnt Mt or a green head (an ant about one and H a half inches long, with a green head) fll B bites you, It Is not to be forgotten, belli be-lli J c!156 they take quite r big piece out. VAa Then there are the while anta (not &m really ants, but torniitea), which Pj cheerfully cat tho Inalde out of tho 5 beam? of tho wooden houses. s.nd re-f0jl re-f0jl cenlly hav) bcon eating the sheet lead H on the top of the Sydney museum. The PA city fathers thought this was going a PJ little far, no now the aute are nrc-rtJjw nrc-rtJjw served lnaldo the musoum with nam- pks of the half consumed lead ob fBU warning to til who allow their appe-PJ appe-PJ tites to run away with then:. PB rid Scarlnfl Mica Away. jm To keep mlco away, scatter sranU -Tali PlecCB ' camphor In your cupboards i d drawors. They greatly dislike- the Hf cmoll cf camphor, and will go far jPJf . awa7 fron It. |