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EYE SPY 
derous work, growing so fast as to completely fill 
his swelling body by morning, when, having com- 
pleted its growth and penetrated through the in- 
sect's skin, it spread its own spores, to be wafted 
hither and yon to the peril of next year's flies, and 
the consequent delight of the tidy house-keeper. 
Such is the work of the world - renowned fly- 
fungus, of which a writer says : " It silences more 
house-flies than all the brushes, traps, poisons, 
whacks, and swearing devoted to the extermina- 
tion of the insect." 
