The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-08-31
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FLIES.

strength and growing their claws. Two
claws make one foot six feet one fly !;
and all Of them are now prepared for hot
days and their usual recreations. With
these claws properly sharpend, they can
touch the exact tip Of = nerve for you,
or go to the very bottom Of the finest
wrinkle you have. These are their oh
jective. +. I r j.
One Of the hottest days has come.
You are home from hard days work,
aud the flies are glad to see you. They |
are social little fellows, with unfailing
appetites, and when you have cooled off
= little and are ready for dinner, they |
like to dine with you. They taste your
meat, they sup your gravy, try your veg
etables, enjoy your pudding, swsrm over
your sugared berries, sip your coffee:
and getting done little before you, wipe
their fingers carefully on your whiskers,
rub their hands and hind legs briskly |
together, feel the tips of their claws all
round, and are quite at your service.
They know well enough-what don't |
they know that the dining room is to
be darkened, and that you are going in
to the library to read your paper and
take nap. They slip out with you and
are there before you. Without drop
of the sleepiness in their veins which is
soon to make you drunken, they chase
one another through the air, in and out,
and round and round, at crss-tag and
follow leader, and knock their heads
against the windows, and mix them
selves up in laby rinths of buzzy mirth,
bursting now and then-did you but
know it-into ecstacies of fly laughter,
at the thought of the fun they are to
have with you.
If you read too long they get impa-
tient, and one will alight on your head
and peer down, to see "where you are,'
and deputation will soon after crawl
up to the edge of the paper and slyly
peep into your eyes to see If you are
drowsy. They hum lullaby about your
ears. They watch for the first yawn;-
and sure enough, here it comes! Now
for it.
They are off in a flock to the lounge
and the window curtains above it
Again they rub their hands over and
over each other, and smooth down their
wings, and make risky excursions into
the air, and alight and run about meet
ing each other aud exchanging signals,
till at last down you 60, and up they fly
again in a body. Hi! what a mad time
they are having round the room while
YOU witch about the cushions and twist
aud nudge yourself into the right posi-
ton!
Are you ready? SO are we. Try him,
Tickle-toe Tickle-toe comes at you 81
lently, and alights on your hand, sac
out, claws in. SO that you hardly feel
him. He makes a short tickling run,
claws out, sac in, and you shake him Oft.
In an instant he is back again, and runs
over precisely the same ground. You
shake more vigorously. He comes to
that very spot again. Failing to rouse
you, he runs up t" tender place be-
tween your fingers, and ilchles there.
Inu strike at ham NIth the "'her hand.
lie aiights once more, and runs up N"n
wrist You Gluten ~ him vieDrunsiN -
but he slips through YOUR fingers, with
zip like jeer. Now he makes for your
face. Alighting quietly, he makes his
approaches undisturded, down the fore.
head, on to the brsigo of tnc nose, and
creeping over cautiously, reaches Il
charming spot, the inside corner o. your
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