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The show began without a hitch. The Vaudeville was deemed fine, the soft-shoe shuffle did not tread on any of the ants, and Nancy’s singing brought tears to the eyes of many an ant who had thought emotion was for sissies.

As the ants were milling around at the end of the interval, scrambling to find their seats as the raffle was drawn, there was a crash like thunder and a puff of billowing smoke, and in the centre of it all…