The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-25
In Fly Time.

1t is one of the un 'athomable mystic.
ries of nature that a fly is unable to
turn to account his many good quail
ties, for he is blessed with an abun.
dance of them. He is under natural
ban which compels him to devote all
his talents to making nuisance OF
himself. The fy's energy is simply in
defatigable, and in any useful pursuit
could not fail to make him wealthy and
respected. He starts at daylight every
morning, and proceeds at once to bust.
ness, aud throughout the livelong day
he keeps it up, always acting, always
ready, always apparently cheerful, and
always seeking to annoy somebody.
His perseverance,, too, is on par With
his energy. He rather enjoys being
driven away from the end o. his VIC
TINS nose it breaks up the monotony
of existence, and the persistence. with
which he returns TO the attack again
and again has an evident spice of en-
joyment in his malice.
A fly never acknowledges the broad
est hint that he is not wanted. When
he has set his affection on an individu Il
he sticks to that unhappy mortal like
an Ofice-seeker to Washington, and is
equally hard to be gotten rid o.. He is
Indifferent to threats, easily evasive of
blows. almost impossible to entrap, and
quite impossible to eradicate. Al
though too wary to be caught by any of
the methods which suggest themselves
to his enraged victim, he is courageous
in the extreme, and never hesitates to
risk his life in the pursuit of his object.
1t is said that he sometimes loses it, and
many persons are ready to testify that
they have killed flies, but the assertion
is open to some doubt. The alleged
corpses exhibited as proof always dis
appear in q short time, and no matter
how many are thus disposed of, the
surviving hordes never show any dimi-
mutton; while individuals bearing q sus-
pici0usly close resemblance to the sup
posed dead flies buzz vindictively about
the would be muscacide soon after the
deed is supposed to have been accom-
plished.
1t is not yet settled. indeed, to every
body's satisfaction, that lies are not
immortal. They disappear at the end
of every season, and where they 90 mo-
body knows, and very few care to in
1ulr0s IOI ACoI VI IVuSluS 0ACM ITOu1
their presumed hibernation and bring
them back before the time. Next sea-
son, however. they reappear in full
force, and with an. apparently lively
memory of their former haunts, pur-
suits and victims. So far as anyone
can see, they are the same flies that dis
turbed the previous summers maps;
they display keen remembrance of the
sensitive points discovered then; they
know where the sugar bowl is kept, and
can 60 straight to the preserve closet;
can tell with an accuracy that must be
due to experience just when to start and
thow fur to go to escape the avenging
hand, and they make themselves at
home with the ease and familiarity of
old habitues. Flies may die and be
succeeded by new generations, but, as
we have said, the fact is not fully
proved; and il it is a fact, the new
brood is never an Improvement on the
old one. Josh Billings despairiny
anathema will be as true q thousand
years hence as it is now and was thou
sand years ago:
81 hate a fiji. Darn q flir'-PSsln-
delphia Bulletin.