RECKLESS COURAGE.
The combatant rage of the Norse hero, Berserker, who, m company with his twelve sons, fought -without shield or buckleT, against apparently overwhelming odds, seems to be daily emulated by that humbla individual, the red ant of India. The red ant's fighting fury knows no bounds. According to Mr. A. E. Aitken, if kerosene be put m their way m order to bar their course, these insects will rush savagely into it until the dead bodies of their advanced guard enables them to pass over. Confronted by the glowing end of a cigar, they will swarm upon it madly until they extinguish it by sheer weight of numbers, but at frightful loss. The hero m "Chevy Chase," of whom it is chronicled that — " When his legs were shot away, He fought upon his stumps " — had the unquenceable spirit of the Berserker and of the red ant. Mr. Aitken, who recently read a paper on the subject before the Bombay Natural History Society, gives the palm for mad courage to the red ant above all other living things.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1891, Page 4
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179RECKLESS COURAGE. Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1891, Page 4
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