The Lost Message

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1:00The Lost Message by James A. Honey From South African Folktales. The ant has had from time immemorial, many enemies. And because he is small and destructive, there have been a great many slaughters among them. Not only were most of the birds their enemies, but ant eater lived almost wholly from them. And centipede beset them every time, and it all places when he had the chance. So now there were a few among them who thought it would be well to hold council together and see if they could not come to some arrangement, whereby they could retreat to some place of safety when attacked by robber birds and animals. But at the gathering, their opinions were most discordant and they could come to no decision. There was red ant, rice ant, black ant, wagtail ant, gray ant, shining ant, and many other varieties. The decision was a true babble of diversity,

2:02which continued for a long time and came to nothing. A part desired that they should all go into a small hole in the ground and live there. Another part wanted to have a large and strong dwelling built on the ground, where nobody could enter but an ant. Still another wanted to dwell in trees, so as to get rid of ant eater, forgetting entirely that there would be the prey of birds. Another part seemed inclined to have wings and fly. And has already been said, this deliberation amounted to nothing, and each part you resolved to go to work in its own way and on its own responsibility. Greater unity than that which existed in each separate faction could be seen nowhere in the world. Each had his appointed task, each did his work regularly and well. And all worked together in the same way. From among them they chose a king, that is to say some of the groups did, and they divided the labor so that all went as smoothly as it possibly could.

3:03But each group did it in its own way, and not one of them thought of protecting themselves against the onslaught of birds or ant eater. The red ants built their house on the ground and lived under it, but ant eater leveled to the ground in a minute, which had cost them many days of precious labor. The rice ants lived under the ground, and with them it went no better. For whenever they came out, ant eater visited them and took them out sack and pack. The wagtow ants fled to the trees, but their own many occasions sat centipede waiting for them, where the birds gobbled them up. The great ants had intended to save themselves from extermination by taking to flight. But this also availed them nothing, because the lizard, the hunting spider, and the birds went a great deal faster than they. When the insect king heard that they could come to no agreement, he sent them the secret of unity, the message of work together.

4:05But unfortunately, he chose for his messenger the beetle, and he has never yet arrived at the ants, so that they are still today the embodiment of discord, and consequently the prey of enemies. End of the Lost Message by James A. Honey.