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at a time. They having crawled into the upper part 

 of the trap, two minutes later I could repeat the 

 catch. 



The mud, slime and cobwebbed fence made a 

 closeup of a filthy breeding place. A square foot 

 must have had 5,000 flies in all stages of develop- 

 ment. 



An excellent portrait was made of the pig framed 

 in the black opening to his sleeping quarters, a thou- 

 sand flies swarming in the air around him and as 

 many more on all sides of his domicile. They were 

 so thick you could hardly touch a spot with a pencil 

 without hitting them. 



These pigsty scenes illustrate what well may have 

 caused these conditions "And then came a grievous 

 swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his 

 servants' homes, and into all the land of Egypt, and 

 the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of 

 flies/ 1 



Pharaoh did not know that one fly in a season 

 could multiply into 54,000,000, that one pigpen or 

 one stable might well have caused all his troubles in 

 that country. His cities were being buried by the 

 accumulation of waste. They had and still have to a 

 great extent, the nice habit of taking everything, 

 food, etc., into a city and removing nothing, piling 

 waste on waste a wonderful breeding place for flies. 



