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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." 



