HIS OWN FLIES.
. :'!A, J. -Singcjyn of tho Burns Hotel' tolls the "Detroit.. Free Press" .that <• somebody = played' n mean trick on one of. his Gorman customers last week.-. '■ ■'.''The Gorman had one of those old fashioned fly traps; in ;his place,'" said ■•■■Mr.: Sihgelyn. "It is-about n foot high and. about' half the diameter at the bottom. The flies; get in somehow'and.-then -they can't > find ;their way out. A fellow went ; into tho /saloon on one of tho hot days. and. tho fly trap was full. ;l'lTsivo you.lialf a dollar for theiu flies,' soys ha and the German's face lit, tip as bo acceptedit arid-Shoved ovcrto Tho. Man-looked iit it' awhile,- then , loosened the bottom and let the flies out. ■ ' ' .'•■ " ' \ "'Vat's der matter mit you?';, asked- " the excited German. ..I '■•;■' ~ ." 'Nothing,' replied tho, nmu [is ho -ueared the door. 'They were my flies and : I could do.what I wanted jvith them.'"
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 12
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152HIS OWN FLIES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 12
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