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Show Ants That Sew Up Wounds. "I hadn't dono nothln' to the llttlo yoller lady," said tho sailor, "but durn-cd durn-cd if her husband didn't pull a knife out of his boot and slash ray choek open. That's Brazil fur yo. "Tho man mado oft, but tho gal, out of puro compassion, stuck to mo. Otherwise Oth-erwise I'd 'a' bled to doath. "And since thero wasn't no doctor to be had, she said sho'd havo to get tho ants to sew my wound up. , "Bho caugnt an ant, ono o' tnom there big Drazll fellers. It had two nippers on his head, sharp and strong. She drawod the lips of tho wound closo, arranged the two nippers, nip-pers, ono on each sldo, and then guv the ant's body a squeeze Enraged, it brung its nippers togethor It mado a tight stitch through tho wound. "Then, before It could draw them nippers out ag'ln, tho lady broko off the ant's body and hoavod it away. Afterward sho caught half a dozen other ants, and guv my hurt half a dozen moro stitches In the same way. Tho upshot was that tho cut healed and left no scar. "Surgical ants them Insects Is callod, r-d Jts an oyeryday occurrenco down there to uso 'om for sewin' up wounds." |
