The Queen Ant

Two kids, a boy and a girl, were excitedly playing a game they had just invented. One of them would make a small mound of dust on the ground, wait for a while, hurriedly bare his/her buttocks, fart right into the dust mound to blow it flat and score points. The time one took in waiting for the fart was also computed by orally counting one, two, three, etc., and deducted from the final score. (They had been practising at home to summon fart at will). Then the other would take his/her turn.

Just a couple of yards away, a queen ant in dishevelled regalia, with an anxious retinue, watched the game from the rim of the anthill with dread.