Chapter 25

The food chosen for the production of the higher classes of ant-men consists of condemned criminals. This was where I came in. At this point in the explanation an idea occurred to me. “Do you really mean to say, Doggo,” I gasped, “that you are a lady and not a man—that the whole nation of Formians are females?” “Yes,” he replied, “and furthermore the more highly developed of us occasionally lay eggs, though of course we never try to hatch them, for that would be even worse a treason than the one with which _you_ ar…