AN ESSAY ON FLIES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1228, 19 December 1882, Page 2

AN ESSAY ON FLIES.

[By a Gisborne Boy.] Mr. Editor, my father told me the other day that if I were to write to you what I think about flies you would put it in your paper. What 1 want to know is why flies were invented, and why Noah was fool enough to take them into the ark ? If he did, all I can say is that I am sorry for the very many swears he has made people make. I know my father sometimes swears, but it is only when a fly lights upon him. The fly has four legs and a long nose. When he lands himself upon your nose he tickles you and although it is nice to be tickled at times, 1 dou’t think that it is pleasant when a fly does it. I was told once of a fly biting a man’s nose, but was a red one, and the fly it was afterwards treated by Dr Pollen for delirewn tremens. 1 don’t know what this is, but that’s what I was told. 1 would like somebody to tell me what flies were made for, but when I ask I am told that it is only to make people use bad words. Flies I think are useless, and should be, destroyed. I read in a book that there were 9,345,872,104,278,189,765, 432 flies in the world, but I can’t tell how they were counted. F. G. H. H.