New-York tribune., 1908-08-02

I am going to open it? They don't SIT theie
watching the door all day
Don't they?" retorted Mr.. Mossback. with fine
scorn. Don't they, indeed? 1 tell you, maoanl'
one fly has eyes in his head than ch1cKeh
has feathers their devsh intelligence is almost
beyond belief A fly may be sitting on rose oush
feet from the door. industriously laying
some of the three million eggs which credfbly
Informed she produces each season. but the very
second you open it she will abandon the job OF
egg LAYING, make one spring for the opening you
have left and be inside your sugar bowl before
you wink. The fly enjoys q great advantage
other winged creatures in that it does not
have to consume any time Matching its eggs after
laying them. Her eggs hatch themselves and not
in q million fails to produce another
lively pest. in my opinion. And as for your argu-
that they do bite tickle after the lights
out for the night. how much weight has that?
You know you never want to put the lights out
before IL o'clock and how after that is 1t
o'clock in the morning? About that hour they
begin again 10 buzz about my and tickle my
wrists and cudde into my neck and awake me
hours before I want Flies. l believe, consider
that a stout man trying to sleep is one of the
things that was created just for their diversion
Up with the birds is a good enough motto for
q farmer. but If the flies would only let sleep
till the birds do get UP I would not feel so ag
gravated about it II there's only hy in the
whole house he will find me at the earliest streak
of dawn
why don't you get up and kill him them said
Mrs. Mossback, ''and come back into bed and get
hour or more of sleep?'
Kill him. exclaimed Mr. Mossback, in deep
disgust Have I not tried it many times. Only
a week ago last Sunday morning, when I felt
had time enough TO devote to 1t, did get up and
folded newspaper into sort of club and slapped
accursed fly that had awakened me a
dozen times. But have doubt at all that that
fly kr ew perfectly well my homemade fly spatter
created wave of air in front OF it which gave 1t
timely warning of the approaching blow, and all
| II had do loosen its feet and spread its
wings, and that air wave which l myself created
blew il into safety every time, and, although my
whack descended on the exact spot where it had
been with sufficient force jar the water out Of
the water jug, its only result to make me
so wide awake that return to sleep was useless
The fly mean time had seated itself on the dark
part Of the pattern Of curtain, carpet or wall
paper fully aware, 1 believe. that I could not
see It there. And sought for it in the gloom
with bulging eyes 1t calmly washed its face with
three or four its briste covered legs and waited
for me TO get into bed again. 1 tell you, Minnie
it's impossible to kill all the little beasts in any
way short of burning the house down"
Mrs MossbacI had waiting for this con-
fession of weakness. Her little plot was beginning
70 come out Just as she wanted it. That's because
Won are q mere man." she said with a bantering
smile When it comes TO a thing like that' al
YOU men need a womans skill!
Mr. Nossback looked at her in amazement. What
are Won giving me- Minnie?" he inquired incred-
,,lousl1y ..Dou YOU mean tell you can kill
the flies now buzzng about in this room?
..T do tell YOU just that retorted Mrs. Moss
back. with spirit.
..Haw. haw" roared Mr.. Mossback derisively