Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1909 — A Boy On Flies. [ARTICLE]

A Boy On Flies.

Here’s another essay for which the small boy must stand convicted before the world: "The HI Is a little animal that gets In the butter In the good ole summer time. It has eight legs; four to walk on and two to shuffle together an’ two to tickle with. Flies are found all over Amercky, but mostly on bald heads. He are the cause of much cusslp' by folks what he pesters with his ticklin’ legs. The fll cannot be snuck up on, for he has eyes In his back right behind the shoulder blades. The fll loves to get on baby's nose and shuffle his feet It Is fun to leave him be on baby's nose es your mother alnt eroun’ to land en yor fer it The fll Is commonly called a fll, but he has another name. Pop calls him a "ahelluvanusisance.”