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Show MAKV" GRAJWA BQNNEH. EATING CAKE "I was what you might have called a foolish fly," said the fly. The flies buzzed around and said: "Buzz, buzz, why?" The Hies were wandering about, upside up-side down, on the ceiling. "I thought I would not move away,"' said the fly. "from where I had been during the warm weather. "My family had told me that It would grow very cold and that I could not stand it. "I must leave with them for a warmer climate. "But 1 didn't think that I would feel the cold. I thought that I had had such marvelous escapes all summer sum-mer from fly paper and such things that I could stand the cold. "Of course I didn't really know what the cold was iike." "You poor fly," said the others. "And how I did suffer with the cold. I drooped and thought I could never stand it. "But I found one spot where It was nice and warm. It was In a sunny window near a thing they called, a radiator. ra-diator. "When night came and the sun had gone down and the radiator didn't seem to be so warm it felt very cold to me. "How cold it can get!" and the fly shivered. "The next day, after my first very cold night," continued the fly, "I went to another sunny window, and from The Radiator Didn't Seem to Be So Warm. there I hopped down Into a suitcase which was lying down on the floor, open. "I saw In it a piece of cake which was later packed in a box. It was a special kind of cake that was being taken away in the suitcase. "But, do you know, I got caught in the suitcase? There weren't many things in it, and somehow or other I escaped being crushed. "What marvelous escapes you do have!" said the other flies. "I am lucky," said the fly, "but oh, how foolish I was to have tried to stay in a cold place." "You were a foolish fly," they all agreed, "and still you were very lucky, too." Then the fly began to buzz some more, and this was what he hummed, In his buzzing fly voice: "I was a foolish fly, A foolish fly was I. I I thought I'd be so bold, And stay where it was cold. Alas, I almost froze. But then I' took a doze, And in a suitcase came. That's how I've won some fame." "You certainly have," said the other flies, "and you will be famous for ever after because you traveled in n suitcase and came to a warmer climate cli-mate after the rest of us. "A fly's life is none too long. We might as well be warm and well fed while we may." "We'll be warm and well fed while we may.'' repeated the fly. "Many people," the fly continued, "don't like flies. They say we're not healthy." "Who cares for people?" said the other flies. But the first fly was so proud of his adventures, and most especially he was proud of the cake he had eaten eat-en when he had traveled in the suitcase. suit-case. "Eatlnj?, eatinpr, eating cake, Quite a little I did take, So I didn't come to harm But traveled where it was quite warm." And the fly coirtinued to buzz and to chatter about the joys of eating cake on a most unusual trip. I |