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Updated: June 16, 2025
And these little words fluttered down like leaves and petals onto the body of the great dead soldier. "Where's his cap, that he thought so much of?" groaned his orderly, Aubeau, looking in all directions. "Up there, to be sure: I'll fetch it," said Termite. The comical man went for the relic. He mounted the parapet in his turn, coolly, but bending low.
And a wise man once predicted that the termite organization, being so much more perfect a one than man's, indicated the kind of society man would at some time build up for himself. In ten or twelve more centuries we, too, might go off in millions and deliberately starve to death because the ruling power decided there were too many people on earth.
The termite with the distorted head had drenched Jim with a brown, thick liquid that covered him from shoulder to feet and Jim was writhing helplessly on the floor. Denny burst loose at last from the feebly clutching foreleg. He straightened, poised his spear, and with a strength born of near madness shot it at the syringe-headed thing's chest.
But Termite, coiled up like a marmot on the common litter, was on the watch. He raised his shock of hair, shook himself as though caught in a snare, waved the brass disk on his wrist like a bell and said, "No, that's not enough. You must think, but think with your own idea, not other people's." Some amused faces were raised while he entered into observations that they foresaw would be endless.
You, who have been in the tropics many times on your lion-spearing and snake-hunting jaunts, ask such a thing? Haven't you ever seen the damage these infernal things can do?" Jim shook his head. "I've never happened to be in termite country, though I've heard tales about them." "If you've heard stories, you have at least in idea of their deadliness when they're allowed to multiply.
Around this a cluster of worker termites pressed, giving nourishment to the insatiable mouth. At the far end of the vast shape another cluster of termites thronged. And these bore away a constant stream of termite eggs that dripped from the zeppelinlike, crammed belly at the rate of almost one a second.
In proportion as their reasonable suspicions increased, the termites would carefully avoid all doubtful looking mantises; but, at the same time, they would only succeed in making the mantises which survived their inquisition grow more and more closely to resemble the termite pattern in all particulars.
He raised the spear and plunged it slantingly down into the hideous body. This type of termite was armored more poorly than the others. Only its head was plated with horn; chest and abdomen were soft and vulnerable as those of any humble worker in the mound. The spear tore into it for two-thirds its length. There was a squeak the first sound they had heard from the wounded monster.
Take, on the other hand, the well-known case of that predaceous mantis which exactly imitates the white ants, and, mixing with them like one of their own horde, quietly devours a stray fat termite or so, from time to time, as occasion offers.
Try to tell sober scientists of the specially evolved, huge-brained thing that rules the termite tribe and forms and holds the marvelous organization it has? Try to tell them now that Matt has to stubbornly decided to keep secret his work with element eighty-five that we were reduced to a quarter of an inch in height, and that we went through a mound and saw at first hand the things we describe?
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