DIALOGUE XXXVI. 
MVSL\^y OR FLY TRIBE. MUSCA TENAX. 
LUCY, The fan-tailed creature, mam- 
ma, which you last described to me, in 
our nice insect conversations, is a most 
curious little animal, with its bubbles of 
air, and its tiny air balloon at its tail* 
Do the larvae of any other flies, muscse I 
mean, live in the water ? 
Mother, I am glad to find, my dear, 
that, after so long an interval as ten days, 
you accurately remember what we last 
discussed, and that you seem to return to 
the subject with pleasure. 
Lucy, Indeed, mamma, there are few 
things which I learn with so much plea- 
sure as these curious histories of insects ; 
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