Show MILS HOUSE FLY RUM HEM AND mrs house fly while reposing for a few minutes on the clean white table cloth makes by request the following after dinner talk 1 I first saw tho light of day ahel I 1 crawled scrawled out of a pile of horse ma aurb nu lying in the alley in the rear of mr air barn my morhet mathei of 0 churbe courbe recognized mo me and told me 1110 I 1 had been deposited a few days te bo fore fora na as an all egg in this manuro pile that it required only twelve hourd bourn tor for me to hatch and that I 1 had become a maggot later ater a pupa and finally in tile the course of it a few days I 1 had developed into tho the now young miss fly my mother laughl me how to walk and fly tile the air being coot cool we sojourn journot so ed to the kitchen door of mr Ds DB couso where we perched parched on tile scree awat awaiting ting an opportunity to slip in when the screen might be opened my mother being more experienced than I 1 darted in when the screen was partly opened by mrs ii 1 when I 1 made the attempt I 1 was iiii hl la in the tha face with a dish cloth which knocked nie me cuckoo and sent mo me buzzing to the ground ten feet from tho the door this frightened me so ao i flew back to my birth place the manure pile in ili the alloy alley buzzed around there for a while then wan wandered derea along down tho the alley for cor some distance where I 1 discovered a dead cat feasting on the decaying flesh of the cat ca I 1 continued my wanderings anti and finally came out on the main street of the village where I 1 found about a drozen men mr D among them sitting on the curb ono one of the members seemed very thin and poor and coughed a great deal and spat a large gob of yellowish sputum on the sidewalk this being now naw to mo me I 1 had great sport in wading around through it and occasionally tasting it another old tat fat member removed his hat to rub his bald shiny head and this gave mo me a fine opportunity to do a tango on this smooth surface lie he attempted to crush me with hla his hand against his venerable dome from this experienc oi I 1 flew ar arbulla a while just tor for practice and visited a grocery store whore where I 1 walked around on and wiped my feet feel on some nice big peaches on exhibition I 1 spent the remainder of the day buzzing around tho the store and put in my first night reposing on the ceiling cel ling to make a long story short visited different kitchens about town ono one in fit particular where I 1 galket down tho tha sloping edge of a cut cup or milk to quench my thirst anti and of course fell in and was wag almost drowned I 1 finally succeeded succeed bil in swim across the cup and crawling out ou in the opposite side and upon the edge of tho the cup I 1 found my feet had been washed clean in fit the tha milk A actor ator allowing my iny wings to try dry for a fow few minutes I 1 flow away aw ay taking a safe position on tho the coiling presently a lady camo came with a baby in her arms and aavo tho the cup of milk to this baby I 1 remained in this house for a number of lays days luring during which almo ho he baby ars taken sick with intestinal infection or summer dla din ri cioca and although two or three doctora were called tit in tho the baby dieci in the iho day of ahki funeral t r was around on oil tho the dining room table whon when babas ten your old sister came in ili when abo ho saw me she said I 1 had pol poisoned her baby slater sister with my filthy feet beet and struck me will a fly swatter when I 1 regained I 1 was waa lying on tho the door loor tummy up I 1 crept under sofa into a dark place and remained romal nod thero there for a whole day my lifetime ro EO tar far has been a repetition of tho the experiences I 1 have just related when people once learn that tile tho only breeding breed lne place of my kind la is manuro piles garbage cans calls and mob all other forms of decaying matter anti and when people cease to bo be shiftless and slovenly and remove these the my raco race will disappear wid and I 1 will cease to causo cause funerals tun orala and untimely deaths dont just clean up but to clean up all summer paint serves two purposes pru pre sorves property and improves appearances pe arances it la is lust just as necessary sary toy tov a house as tor for a car whatever you do the monaco menace to all the fly |