^l<5 DIPTSRA, 
and when I walk out, I find great 
sport in watching the bees and flies upou 
the flowers and bushes. 
Mother, The animals, which I shall 
describe to day, do not live among flowers 
br bushes, nor in water, but in ditches 
and other filthy places. There are several 
kinds of muscae which deposit their eggs 
in those situations ; one species lays them 
in clusters of forty or fifty, and in such a 
manner, that the moment the worm conies 
from the e^^^ it can creep into the moist 
dirt, which is suited to its habits. 
Lucy, Are these larvae shaped like 
those of the chamelion fly ? 
Mother, No, they are very dissimilar in 
shape, but they breathe in the same man- 
ner throngh the tail. The body is rather 
more than half an inch long, and some- 
Mfiat resembles a tadpole. Have you 
ever seen a tadpole? 
Lucy, Oh yes, last spring Fanny 
showed me numbers of them from the 
old steps at the brook, and she told me 
they were young frogs. 
