Show accounting ACCOUNT INU FOR THE FLY explanation that probably D d not satisfy I 1 traveler before sailing for egypt for the winter james hazen hyde said at a farewell dinner in new york the only drawback to a tropical winter is the flies in the hot sun ol 01 a january day in egypt morocco or algeria the flies are an incredible pest you see them in ill the corners of the eyes ol 01 native children and men he lie asleep in sunny places with flies crawlin crawling over their lips the natives don t mind the flies in fact they like them at a boerl or native inn in the sahara a traveler said to the waiter pointing indignant ly at his stew of barlev and goats goat a flesh how comes this dead fly in my couscous 7 9 Monsie ui replied the waiter I 1 can not tell you perhaps the alv I 1 ad not eaten for many days and throwing himself ravenously on the couscous acus fed with too great heartiness thereby contracting an inflammation of the stomach severe enough to cause death the poor little thing can never have been strong when I 1 brought the cons co s it was dancing and hum ming merrily on the surface perhaps this idea has just presented itself to le me it endeavored to swallow too large a piece of meat the morsel stuck in its wind windpipe lipe A terrific coughing tit fit inaudible to our gross ears ensued alas soon all was over the waiter walter wiped his eyes and said in a broken voice I 1 can account in no other way for the poor creatures death 4 |