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Show H' Ants as Weather Prophets B-' Ants as weather prophets afford H new testimony to the cleverness of H. these small animals. When you go H out on spring morning and ttnd the M ants ouslly engaged In clearing out ' their nests and dragging the sand and B - olt ' erth to the surface you may Bf bo ure tnat no matter how cloudy It H'1 li there will be no rain that day, and K the probabilities are for several days t of good weather, says (he Rural New v Yorker. If however, you seq the ants V- about the middle of a spring or sum- Hv mer afternoon hurrying back to the B ,lest and a sentinel trotting ont In every direction looking up stragglers Bf ( and urging them to go homo as soon f as they can get there, you may figure H; on a rain that afternoon or night. H When the last of tho wanderers Is B found the picket hurries in and the B nest Is securely sealed from the Inside K to keep out the water. It Is seldom H. that ants are taken by tho approach Hjb of a shower. |