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A HOUSE-FLY ESCAPING FROM VENUS’ FLY TRAP 
The plant will catch and devour any sizable insect that comes along; but small ones, even though 
the leaves have closed upon them, are allowed to escape as not being worth eating, just as a 
fisherman throws the small fish back in the stream because it would be more trouble to clean 
and cook them than they are worth. The above photograph, posed and highly enlarged, 
hows a house-fly emerging from the interior of the leaf, by crawling between the spikes. 
(Frontispiece. 
