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The Raid on the Termites, by Paul Ernst
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Title: The Raid on the Termites
Author: Paul Ernst
Release Date: November 12, 2008 [EBook #27248]
Language: English
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The Raid on the Termites
A Complete Novelette
By Paul Ernst
Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.
CHAPTER I
The Challenge of the Mound
It was a curious, somehow weird-looking thing, that mound. About a yard in height and three and a half in diameter, it squatted in the grassy grove next the clump of trees like an enormous, inverted soup plate. Here and there tufts of grass waved on it, of a richer, deeper color, testifying to the unwholesome fertility of the crumbling outer stuff that had flaked from the solid mound walls.
Like an excrescence on the flank of Mother Earth herself, the mound loomed; like an unhealthy, cancerous growth. And inside the enigmatic thing was another wo