RECKLESS COURAGE.
The combatant rago of the Norse hero, Berserker, who, in company with his twelve 'ons, fought without shield or buckler, against apparently overwhelming odds, Sfems to be daily emulated by that humble 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 in their way in 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 ■vill swarm upon it madly until they extinguish it by sheer weight of numbers, but at frightful loss. The hero in " Chevy Chase," of whom it is chronicled that — " When his legs were shot away, He fought upon his stumps "—" — had the ucquenceable 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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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9027, 9 March 1891, Page 4
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179RECKLESS COURAGE. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9027, 9 March 1891, Page 4
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