Nun erschien eine Prozession Ameisen, Gott weiß, woher, um sich an ihre Arbeit zu machen; eine schleppte ganz mutig eine tote Spinne, die fünfmal so groß war wie sie selbst, und zerrte sie auf einen Baumstrunk.
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it--which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.