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w larks. rol)ins and holxtlinks for 

 iown his fork and. loMl<in<'' rarrful 



orclu'stra. and our ^,\\v-[ laid 

 1\ around the lahlr. iji(|uirc<i : 

 "Is this place hewitchedr How is it you can eat outdcMjrs this 



way and not have any flies? I was out to Miss 's only the 



other day and she tried to have dinner out undn tlu aj^pk trees 

 rnd the flies were so thick you couldn't see the food on th( t ihlr. 

 \()U would think that she. being a teacher in the normal - h' > 1. 

 would be intelligent about such things, but she didn't seem tu 

 know that there were any flies around and sat and talked and 

 ate, flies and all. I simply pretended to eat. Every m .nihfni 

 gagged me. But how is this? How do you manage it? Why 

 aren't the flies as thick out here?" 



"1 guess there are flies enough here," I replied. "Just look 

 at those traps. Only you see we have turned the tables on thetn 

 — put them in prison and let ourselves out. Those traps were 

 emptied and baited twice this morning, the flies being siuK^.l and 

 fed to the birds, and every fly that has come to the hou-e f-T 

 food or drink today has gone straight into one of those trai>- and 

 staid there." 



For one home to do this, makes it, of course, a running fight. 

 Still it is not so bad. The flies make excellent chick and \x>b- 

 white feed, so the more that come the better. It would be no 

 more trouble to catch a peck than a pint, if we had suitable out- 

 door traps. The traps we can buy are little trifling affairs, like 

 tho.se shown in the picture, made of wire which rusts out quickl> 

 and with bait dish so small that the flies suck it dry ten times 

 a day, if they are numerous. For outdoor n-e \\ r n. rl a largei 

 trap made of serviceable wire and with a bait tray >ix niches in 



