New Ulm review., 1913-05-14
A Story You Won't Read

| A Story You Won't Read
The first thing I remember is be.
fore l had any legs or wings and
was wiggling and squirming in q nice
warm bed of horse manure where
spent my time eating and drinking
the food about me. After q while
began to feel uncomfortable and
found that I had grown too big for
my skin. Relief came soon and my
skin came off and ate some more
manure and enjoyed it. In a few
days more my skin again got too
tight, and of it came, and then went
to sleep for ] don't know how long.
When i awoke was kicking and
struggling out in q very dry, hard
skin, and after freeing myself ! found
was in the open air and had legs
and wings and looked and felt very
differently than when went to
sleep. I was thirsty, so tried my
wings for the first time and few to
a puddle by the manure pile and took
a long drink after which I felt much
better.
i Up to this time had eaten nothing
but manure, but soon I found out
that there were other things just as
good. saw lot of other flies, big
and little, around a small building,
not far from the manure pile, so
few over and had feast. 1t is fun
to wade around in your food and find
so much that you hardly know where
to begin. | am afraid I am glut-
ton.
l spent quite awhile here and then
few out in the sunshine where the
white clothes were hanging on line
and walked over the napkins for a
while. Wet things are very pleasant
for a time, but my feet get covered
with little pieces Of food and things
that wiggle around and tickle me so
I like to wipe them off on a nice
white napkin or table cloth, and then
! get around better. While l was
enjoying the sun l smelled the most
delightful smell that had ever come
to me. 1t came from an open WIN
dow 50 / flew in. Things were smok-
ing On stove and a woman was
mixing up some soft white stuff on
a table. There were lot of other
iiies about and one that was too busy
eating to see his danger got rolled up
in the dough and never saw him
again, so / was careful and flew in
and ont and got a mouthful each
time. I got rid of some more man.
ure there for the dough was sticky
and pulled it off my feet.
Nearby was howl of milk which
smelled good so I flew over and took
drink. Here l nearly lost my life
and if l had not been young and
active l am sure that l would never
have eseapcd. Several Of us were
drinking and the woman suddenly
put out her hand in our direction and
we all made jump. Two got hit
and fell right in the middle. She hit
me too but I landed near the edge
and struggled out and few away but
she caught the other two and p'nched
them and threw them on the floor
and went on mixing her dough, ap-
parently without thought that she
had killed two of my companions.
I stayed in that kitchen long
time and then went into another
room where there was not so much
to eat Here l found lot of flies
and a table set. One poor fly had
drowned in the ice water;>, it must
have been awfully cold, and two or
three had their feet so tangled up
in the butter that they couldn't get
away and the number Of little germs
that they had wiped off was enor-
nous. They were swarming on the
butter but l had eaten enuf that
day, and before long it got dark and
was tired, so I went to sleep on
the edge of glass, after scraplng
off as much dough as could. The
edge of glass is very nice thing
to wipe your feet on.
In the morning the man and wo-
man and a child came in to eat, and
the woman poured out a glass full
of milk for the child-the glass had
slept on. l guess people like germs
and manure and things just as much
as l do for the baby drank all the
milk. Day after day went by; we
spent part of our time in the house,
and then we would fly to the manure
pile and the little building back OF
it and we lived on the fat of the
land. Two or three times a day we
would get Whit Of that lovely smell
from the kitchen and then we would
have a race to see which of us could
get there first. The woman would
Slap at US and the child chased us,
but only few got caught and we
enioyed the fun. Sometimes one got
killed, but we hadn't time to be sorry
long, we were so busy eating and
wiping our feet and investigating
things. 80. !,
After some weeks of this life !
flew up in the air one morning, and
went into window had not seen
before and found the child asleep on
a bed. went over and walked
across his lips, and it was warm and
nice, and l wiped my feet and stretch
ed my wings and almost went to sleep