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Show FLIES. See the fly. It has not always ben a fly--it uscd to be a maggot. Maggots live in manure, man-ure, too, but they eat a lot of other things that we wouldn't eat. ' They cat the stuff a man coughs up M when he has -consumption. That is H wat they go to the spittoon for. H Their house-fly specks have germs H of consumption in them. When flics H came out of the spittoons they rub M thcr forefeet together and then rub M them on their heads; nice, clean flies. M Have them in your coffee or milk? M Flics like closets, that is where they M But they will leave the closet any fl time to get into your mouth. They en- M joy typhoid filth and go fronn there to H the baby's bottle; when you wondrr M how baby got typhoid fever. H Flics arc opposed to sewers. They M think it a trick to starve them. Then H they have to live on such as they can H find; the vomit of drunk men, sores H of dogs and horses, and the cold meat M in the pantry saved for supper. H Flics have an eternal enemy- the H housewife. JTclp her screen the house H and keep them out. H |