ABOUT THE FLIES.
Now that the fly season is about beginning, the " Boston Transcript" finds room for these reflections:—
You can sometimes catch a base ball on a fiy. The Latin name for a certain kind of fiy is Tempus fugit. The fly is an author. See " Flies on Horses."
You can always at this season of the year find flies on toast at restaurants.
Flies are always on hand early in the morning. You have all seen a ki'e fly. Longfellow speaks of a fly as a bird when he says, " Fly, proud bird of freedom." Some people employ the blind to keep flies from the room."
You can draw a fly with a drop of molasses better than with a crayon. The spider is the only creature which invites the fly to his parlor. Flies are like rivers. They are often damned. Stage flies are painted. A fly is a conservative in his reading ; he always sticks to his own paper. There are musical flies. People often speak of that base fly.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1834, 8 January 1880, Page 3
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174ABOUT THE FLIES. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1834, 8 January 1880, Page 3
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