Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The death of a little colored girl in Alabama is recorded in a local paper which gives as a cause the following: While asleep the ants by the hundreds made an attack on the child, and when she awoke she was literally covered with them, and all busy biting and stinging. They were so ferocious that a woman on the place had to sweep them off with a brush broom. The biting and stinging were so serious that fever ensued, which, coupled with the poison of the bites, produced death two days afterward.