TWO WIXGS. 31 



'Tis a wellknown sound of summer. 

 Theii" antemiae are tlireejointed, 

 And from out the third there issues, 

 Sideways or in front, a bristle. 

 Their mouth is a hirge and elbowed 

 Sucking tube, bent in .the middle. 



Next these come the true Muscina, 

 Swarming in such countless numbers : 

 These are all tlie flies domestic, 

 In our houses, in our windows, 

 In our chambers, in our larders. 

 Wandering over food and flowers. 

 Walking gravely on the ceiling, 

 'Gainst the laws of gravitation, 

 Without any fear of falling, 

 Raising many sage conjectures. 

 Philosophic speculations : 

 Always tioating round the tlycage 

 In their gay aerial gambols. 

 These are denizens of summer. 

 Their proboscis is retractile. 

 In a hollow of the visage. 

 From which it protrudes at pleasure ; 

 At its tip it has two suckers. 

 Large and oval : watch the housefly, 

 See it use this busy sucker 

 On some sugar spread on purpose, 



