Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — THE FLY. [ARTICLE]

THE FLY.

By Walt Mason.

One little fly, so busy, will jnake a strong man dizzy, and drive him to despair; ’twill spoil a day delightful, and fill with language frightful the palpitating air. I murmur, after dinner, “A nap would be a winner; so I shall sleep a few; some snores, in Greek and Latin, will make me fresh as satin, in half an hour or Then to my couch repairing, I soon am smoothly farj ing into the land of dreams; and I then a fly comes pacing along my forehead, tracing the furrows and | the seams. Around my eyes it rambles and then it lopes and gambols, along my queenly nose; then my bald head exploring, still burrowing , and boring, industrious it goes. Ma- ; liciously is chases around the tick- \ lish places, which isn't right or fair; I feel my hair grow 9orrel; t I lam severely moral, or I would rise ! and swear. At last I rise and slay | it, decapitate and flay it, and then I lie down again; no use—there comes another! The dead fly left a brother, to plague the souls of men!