WHAT A FLY DID.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHAT A FLY DID.

The ' Chicago Tribune' says :— Mr Jamec Howard, of Walker, married an interesting young lady named Symonds about a year ago, and they have lived cosily and happily together since. But the other morning, at breakfast, an inquuitre and hungry fly dropped down from his perch on the ceiling, and, stretching his legs, began skirmishing around for his breakfast. He crawled slowly around Mr Howard's coffee-cup once or twice, sniffling the delicious aroma and wondering hew he could manage to get a drink, when his foot slipped, he lost his grip, aud in a moment more was floundering around in the liquid. His struggles attracted the attention of James, and he pulled him out and tossed him across the table. The poor Hy alighted in a wet and bedraggled condition on Mrs Howard's plate, JShe indignantly grabbed him and flung him back into her husband's plate. James gazed steadily at her a moment, and seeing blood in her eye, deliberately picked up the fly, and with a hand trembling with suppressed rage, threw it back on her plate. Then became a regular game of shuttlecock between the two, and that fly flew back and forth until he was completely worn out. Than the young wife bursting into tears, seized her bonnet and rushed from the house to the residence of her parents, vowing she would never come back, and James went out to the barn, swearing to himself. In an hour or so the father of the much abused wife came over with a team and removed all her baggage, and now they 'meet as friends no more.' They have separated for good, and thus two lives arc rendered miserable by the single mishap of a fly. On such small things do our destinies depend.