The Life of the Fly 



In m}^ mind ; after their fashion, they gave me 

 a picture of the object described. Coloured 

 by its adjective and vivified by Its verb, the 

 name became a living reality: what it said I 

 saw. And thus, gradually, was the magic of 

 words revealed to me, when the chances of 

 my undirected reading placed a few easy 

 standard pages in my way. 



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