The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-30

he will trample over them Win leeC
never washed. He will seek his hui
man prey when the sun has cOnsplred
with the tasks of mans everyday Ia
Dor to lay upon the faces of men the
salt moisture and excretory debris OF
perspiration, to gall his victim in the
very moments when most sensitive. 4
It will be no comfort to the average 3
man to think that all the fly asks at
such times is meat and drink. which
he finds in such admirable intermlX-
ture upon the dripping human brow.
Let him forage elsewhere; no noble
scientific devotion or self-denial shall
prevent the average men from slap
ping his life out if Mr.. Fly can only
be once hit-this .sif'' is fatal one
for the agility and elusiveness OF the
fly is his most satanic attribute.
Could men but destroy all human and
animal and circumstancial that annoys
them. they would be as happy as the
accomplished violinist Nero. But to
bear and helplessly suffer is. together
with much adverse else. what makes
men all sad and gray before their time;
and the fly is no small part OF the cause
for this. Woe to the ''small boy
or man, either, now, who has sacrlfic-
ed his hair to the sun in hope to win
gifts from the god Of GOODNESS and
ease. Long hair is shelter from the
fly, but great is his JOY in lightly
skipping over the polled stubble, and
great is the suffering and paving OF
hands and upstarting anger OF the OBJ
jects of his walks abroad.
Of the loves Of the fly it is not
necessary to speak further than to
hint that he is diffusely polygamous
and by reputation most incorporate.
And thus it is that the nameless
larvae which are the infancies OF all the
teeming millions Of these pests are so
innumerable. The fly does not sup
port his family, and SO can afford to
have it very large indeed. But the fly
is not an uninteresting animal by any
means, if his disagreeable relation to
man can be effaced from considera-
ton. He is very energetic. The ear
Hest dawn arouses him, and nothing
abates his activity until dusk robs
!. him of his dear light and puts him to
roost on CEILING or wall. His move
/ ments are extremely quick and anima-
ted. He walks about with a rapidity
to make one suppose he is engaged IN
the most vitality useful Of tasks and
l has to get through to meet a sharp
e appointment. When he flies it is not
the sustained dignity and directness of
!. the bee, for example, but it is a series
/ of zig-zags, with corners very sharp,
1 reminding one very much of an auc'
j. tioneer darting hither and thither up
Q on a bidder. Even when he seems to
k be taking his ease and shade in hot
e moons beneath the trees, his repose
|. consists merely Of retaining pretty
r much the same position all the time
% by squaring it or flying off and return
5. ing at tangents to it, SO that yol
l. must wonder at the immense resource
d the animal expends in never getting
e on and never wishing to get on. In
" deed, he is never quiet save when he i
t. eating or asleep. Doubtless his quie
u eating is only apparent, for from tn
in time he spends at it he must be WORK
IS ing very busily with hismouth. An
n. as for his quiet. when he is asleep it
Mt very clear to mortals that his leg
SIS would be much more at ease II n
ne went regularly to bed on back instea
Mt Of hanging by his feet in that ras
S. trapeZe-performe style. And the
mt his acute sagacity in finding his meals
lr- How readily he finds his human pre-
in out as it lies asleep before the table
nd are set and the groceries are opel
nd How far-reaching his discernment {
se carrion With what genius does
in find the weak. unprotected places
nd the horse and the dog and the COY
,e. What discriminating contempt has
an for the cat, whom he rarely touche
-as and is apt to get caught il he doe
he How admirable his easy improN
a dence, which makes him live to e
Sy. and love and sleep, and his arde
he faith which entrusts his numero
M brats to the fortuitous kindnesses
that ever-reliable guardian, Futul
VA. Take him altogether, men can learl
he good lesson from him if they feel Ii
are it this warm weather; albeit. they ca
YES not learn it all until they see him {
cts next fall in the first nipping advel
ion breath.
aid And lastly, for the usefulness
,es. the fly-not real apparent usefnln'
ric- which, after all, might win this e.
the my some little esteem, but rather tt
dis usefulness which natures God |
eat. beautifully arranged to come out CIV
from the selfshneSs Of the creature
honey from the dead lions jaw. II
his voracity which makes him Sc
enger. and most useful one, rs q
AZ one who watches his feeding pla
.ue. may see. And further than this,
VI rapid and cratic and net-like fig
u upon his forays for food and div
pa SiOnS of love and SieStas in the Sh:
zen are said to be most useful in clear
Ign the air of millions of tiny insects ;
anu germs which he gathers upon
inu glutinous case as he goes upon his l
uL- zy way, and which he scrapes off W
~. those forefeet of his into the dust
saln death for mans benefit. With
~ . last, moral may be pointed by
, ,:a; reader unless prevented by-s'thel
, nu that pesky fyagain!''
now
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