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Show 'ilpiill AVAFTf GEAHAM. BONNER. FLY WAYS 'Sometimes I take a long time getting get-ting ready to burst Into being a fly " said the day fly, "but It doesn't matter mat-ter how long I fake over it Once I am a fly I do not care to live." "How sad," said anoter ordinary fly, "why not?" I want to be a fly before I ara one," said the day fly. "Sometimes I hurry more than other times out of my larvae state, but after I am a fly my ambition Is satisfied and I take no interest In anything." "Why are you called a day fly?" asked the others. Now the day fly did not seem to feel In the least bit unhappy. She stretched her wings and said : . ' "I suppose we are called day flies because we live such a short time, and a day Is a very short time. "But they really should call us flies-of-several-days, for that would be more correct, considering we live always al-ways for several days. "I would tremble , if I had to live much longer." "Haven't you ever wanted to live longer?" "No," said the day fly. "Won't you stop and have luncheon with us?" asked the other flies. "Thank you, no," said the day fly. "I never eat. I don't believe my families fam-ilies have ever eaten. We aren't eating eat-ing flics." "No wonder you don't live more than several days," said the others "No," Said the Day Fly. "You take no food and no nourishment nourish-ment You cannot possibly live that way. "Eat and you will live to be a strong fly like myself." "I'm too dainty to eat," said the day fly. "It's far more fun to eat than be dainty," said the others.. "Perhaps." said the day fly, "but 1 really can't change my ways. "I thank you kindly for your invitation, invita-tion, but I do not want to eat "I just want a little glimpse of the world and then I do not want to live any more." "We're sorry," said the other flies, "and we wish you would change your ways. "But, as you won't, we're grateful and thankful for the Interesting talk we ha'te had with you. "It was good of you to give us so much of your time when you had so little of it" "You are welcome," said the day fly. "And now I must be going off. "The world Is beginning to tire and weary and exhaust me and I've had enough of it "I hope you'll all enjoy your luncheon." lunch-eon." The day fly flew away slowly. "Of all the queer flies and queer ways," snid the other Hies, "the day fly takes the prize. "Fancy not eating, and fancy not even wanting to eat and be strong and live!" |