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and on the following day No. 2 raced through the second story 

 rooms. The chimney was then covered with netting and as 

 there seemed to be two youngsters left in the chimney, the poor 

 mother sat and cried on the outside of the wire. It was either 

 the 22nd or 23rd that one of those in the chimney was coaxed 

 out, but the other was never heard from and probably died in 

 the chimney although we have tried every way possible to find 

 the body. 



"On Thursday, Oct. 6, I noticed small white crawling things 

 under a rug — then, lifting the corners of other rugs, found thou- 

 sands. Under fifteen oriental rugs we swept up several dustpans 

 full, but none from under the Wilton carpet rug in the living- 

 room, which of course made us think that they had something 

 to do with the rugs. Our rugs we have had for several years, and 

 they were all cleaned with vacuum cleaner about the middle of 

 September. 



"On my return from Boston, Friday, Oct. 14, the day I gave 



the specimens of maggot (or whatever it was) to Mrs. — -, I 



found that the family had been killing green flies all day by 

 hundreds. They swarmed on the windows and were swept 

 down and killed. They died hard — had to be burned or brushed 

 into Dalmatian powder. It was exciting! This lasted for over 

 a week. We gave up everything to kill flies. At first they were 

 sluggish but later in the season they were harder to kill. 



"My mother thinks that there is some connection between 

 dead squirrel and fly — but why did they choose oriental rugs 

 and not those of American manufacture.'^ There w^ere more found 

 in the hall than in the rooms. The fireplaces from the squirrels' 

 chimney are in the living-room and hall and there were more worms 

 in those rooms. We are so anxious to know something about 

 them — why we were so pestered, and if we have this to look forward 

 to each October ... I should have said that there are 

 no birds or animals in the house and that the whole house was 

 thoroughly cleaned just before the squirrels made their appear- 

 ance — that was why we felt so disturbed." 



[Jan. 4] "As to the rugs — on each floor is a large rug, and one 

 in each doorway, leaving a space all around the rooms of about 

 13^ to 2 feet. All are oriental excepting the large one in the 

 living-room. Most of the larvae were found in the hall and recep- 



