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Show ACCOUNTING FOR THE FLY. I Explanation That Probably Did Not Satisfy Traveler. Uoforc sailing for Kgypt for tho wlntor James llnzcti Hyde said at a farewell dinner In New York: "Tho only drawback to u troplcnl winter Is the files, ln the hot sun ol a January day in Kgypt, .Morocco or Algeria tho files uro an Incredible pest. You see them in tho corners of tho eyes of native children rind men Ho asleep In sunny places with tiles crawling over their lips. Tho natives don't mind tho files, ln fnct, they llko them. At u boorj or native Inn In tho Sahara a traveler said to the welter, pointing Indignantly Indignant-ly at his stew of bailey and goat's llcsh: "'How comes this dead lly In my couscous?' " 'Monsieur.' replied tho waller, 'I can not tell you. Perhaps the fly had not eaten for many days nnd throwing himself ravenously on the couscous fed with too great lienrtlness. thereby contracting an Inllammatlon of the stomach severe enough to cause death. Thu poor little thing can never have been stiong When I brought tho coiis-cous It was dancing und humming hum-ming merrily on the surface. Perhaps this Idea has Just presented Itself to me It endeavored to mvallow too largo a piece of meat. Tho morsel stuck In Its windpipe. A terrific coughing III. Inaudible to our gross ears, ensued. Alas, soon all was o,ver.' "The waller wiped his eyes nnd said In a hi nken voice- "'I enn account In no other way for the poor creature's death.'" |