The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-23
For the Sunday Crescent
FLIES.
BY JoCKo.

have tried my hand on grasshoppers, reaches
and other bugs and things, but a. yet have never
touched on flies. Flies are q sort Of musquto
only bigger. They have body, legs and wings
like the latter, and also bill. The bill ia one Of
1.-The chief parts.
fly has great powers of suction. he can
suck dry sugar up through his bill in way which
makes Mrs. Towels indulge 10 evil speaking
Mrs. 7. is economical in her ways though not as
much inclined to purity of taols-cloth as might
be; which draws nies.) .--.
Also nv can suck with his feet. In this way
| he can walk on pane OF glass without slip
ping up. He sxhsusts the air from round his feet
so that he can put his foot down with ease to the
intelligent observer. To an ethereal creature like
the fly the air is great obstacle. should think
| il must be about the consistence OF molasses or
Fourth District mud. His leg works on the prin.
ciple OF pneumatic air pump, and IL is sing lar
fact that you can always tell when fy's leg Is
| out of order by looking at his teeth.
Flies are OF much assistance to young babies.
| They develop the countenance in way equal to
few and surpassed by none. When the flies are
duly active the face of a SIX months older will
surpass in rspidity Of change q phantasmsg oria
or the city govern ment.
A fly usually is very polite animal. always
taking the best place at table and helping himse
first but when they try they can be excessively
annoying. They will sit on your nose just as If il
was their own and even soft answers will hot turn
away their wrath.
Flies are melancholy insect. They are sub.
feet 10 fits of mental depression which sometimes
result in suicide. Their favorite mode Of ending
an existence which has become distasteful is but
ter, though have known them to employ milk,
sugar. or moasses, and on one occasion rescued
the form of an erring but misguided creature of
that denomination from a biscuit He was
thoroughly done.
The fly is a reckless kind OF Ting He will have
his fun, and cares nothing what it cost. / saw an
intoxicated fly once leap into boiling hot cup OF
ten Horip he rOrr11 IA
all summer. He was unfortunate in the way of
reserves, and didn't get there, az he might other.
wise have done by bridging il over with dead flies.
Flies in amber are considered in the light of
curio.Ities, though never cared much for them.
amt curious.
Flies may be preserved in various WAYS, such
as canning, metallic collins, etc., but for myself |
would rather not preserve them. | am opposed
TO them; and though they say self-preservstion is
the first law OF nature, as am not fly | don't
see how it applies.
never could sympathizs with flies. They are
too ndiscrimnste.
Flies are a clear gain to the soda water fountains
The loan hides them till you pay your money,
and then the man fishes the fly out and it is as
good as new.
There are a great many ways OF killing flies.
You can poison them or shock them to death with
electricity, or catch them in fytrap and choke
them to death, but think the most efectual way
Is TO open a VEN and let them bleed to death.
For when fly has no blood IN him what il he
good for? All the doctors 10 the world couldn't
bring him TO life, for there is nothing to work on.
You couldn't bleed him, or cup him. or leech him.
and as for giving fly gentle alternative, or
mild apereDt, or q dose OF chronic sarsaparilla-
why the bare idea Ia absurd.
In conclusion ] will merely remark that flies
are Of great antiquity, and have always been
regarded in the light of q nuisance. | will not
speak OF the Egyptian plague Of flies which hap
pened to Moses, nor OF the bob-taied bull 10 hy-
time, which is supposed to have been an Assyrisn
bull, and TO have fourished at the same time that
other abbreviated animal semi ram is understood
TO have done so. No, l will GO back to the DAYS
Immediately succeeding the food, and show con.
cusiyely not only that flies existed then but they
were thought to be evils. That learned French
commentator. g. Shaks pere, makes Hamlet the
Prince Of Denmark, beyond JOrdsn) say:
g Rather bear the ills we have than fly to others
that we know not Of" which advice it is believed,
Ham took and flew. Ainsie saw it i'll.