The Life of the Fly 



In my 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 Hving 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. 



