Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — Hawthorne and the Fly. [ARTICLE]

Hawthorne and the Fly.

A fly is the most impertinent and indelicate thing in creation—the very type and moral of human spirits whom one occasionally meets with, and who, perhaps, after an existence, troublesome and vexatious to all ’with whom they come in contact, have been doomed to reappear" in this congenial shape. Here is one intent upon alighting on my nose. In a room now—in a human habitation —I could find in my conscience to put him to death; but here we have intruded upon his own domain, which he holds in common with all the children of earth and air, and we havtTno right to slay him hii his own ground.— Letter to his wife.