The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-05-11
THE BIOGRAPHY OF FLY.

with aas a hundred i M1s po others = 9 in sts Tae'd dir fv&' A aEs; a 4 few % dags + h ta1s I %d
out, a little white worm. I fed for a week or two on the filth
SssFf / / bust wts fior rasn a / ihangsa i aS' With = Rr9 }e g guDs; w SsTsr@' days
IS sine st. then I have travelled about q good deal; Ny feet have a
glass, but it just splendid for catching germs of all kinds. They
You would not think 50 Il am so smaD, but I really can carry
e9 M2oq 2i bacteria aa b. On my body " ct s;e once 49, ..,.,;,,,, +,nao;a +.,.r
You Dc not hear of summer complaint in winter; am not flying
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kinds i 1s e sss9g tq 9ss ! ia2s 8 s f;3 sSa III t fisSt ! pick Ok " s,s : 8 sPs ss7 1 e;ag
I can dnd.. Of course, having Matched out in It and lived on it the
ast part Of my life. you would not expect me to Do otherwise;
. ss ! i3ss ' of ft TO feast on candy cake sweets meat cheese and
nvsi IN over ss; ;s{ s %;s3st :'e fsa s3ssf g M . Of tas E;sy I tex flies that
,sars s:an ss5e ts5 s :ai :q{ 7 %isBt fS ss?s ~ aSs S ;sis5s esS:od sS5 : in v eas
.a%m . =! s. "a there r is !. ~ }S danger &Sgar Of The h. fly SZ ssep falling even though
.t. t tss 1 ?s2e'f & } !: :ii e .; e: st VI vt t sss sa asp ssa i ssssss; n saa sas End
s ~sa1S it Btt: Starved 9S afs sSt sad f; sis:ss: sS? Us # t sts 'S G ssfs sss: and r. street xs
s sp sa deeen 8pat we we h %l las Su out ff fBsr 'e a rs i3 t5fsnen nT tSe 1 asam psfs
c@t tss;s 50 , the COWS Evil. will give t~ less less milk nil Fl and nd the the horses f%s VIII VIII % lose sG = e
lot harder for the horses every summer.
# you want to get rid Of Us Us the only way is to prevent us from
Or ert t9sst ing t st tSo4o19 &ssS With 5y a k Sft5e xsf t s' i%e, t se XII e es'< sass:
: ss:s7 s ens yf j: Eh at i t%e: :2i s!sxi sa7 z i sht Ii ;!ss :RsieE Iss ss: ss4a: s s1
win "swat" US without mercy SSptl W. disappear: - -
I suppose people would not like to have us leave fyspecks on
ereta, and also that they might contain g j disease germs, . but they y do
do not seem to care if their bread and cake is Ayspecked. They
bs it in the market just the same when they see us crawling over
it.
They think wrapped bread looks just a little smaller, but by. &C
tual weight one bakers loaves were just the same, a~nother's had
to buy the unwrapped bread d., If they had watched US coming g1 from
Il, have us make a door1nat of their food. But they never notice
80 we swarm over the food in the markets and groceries and have
access to many a highly respectable kitchen.
came near losing my life this morning bathing in somebody!
milk pitcher: Twas afraid I was going to drown, but a kind heart
ed lady lifted me out and poured the cream, with all of those hun
dreds of bacteria I had left there on her little girls oatmeal. s
she has typhoid fever I suppose her mother will wonder where sha
could have gotten it.
It was q sad day for us when DR.: Kober, Of Washington, D. G.
announced in 1895 that we carried typhoid. He told the publi
how we crawled over excreta in the open closet Privy) vault, ans
then started for the kitchen table to wipe our feet laden with filth