The Life of the Fly 



their fill; by means of a pepsin which they dis- 

 gorge, they first turn their foodstuffs into soup ; 

 they practise a strange and exceptional art of 

 feeding, wherein those dangerous carving- 

 implements, the scalpels with their dissecting- 

 room perils, are superfluous. Here ends, for 

 the present, the little that I know or suspect 

 of the maggot, the sanitary inspector in the 

 service of the public health. 



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