A TALE OF FOUR FLIES.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

A TALE OF FOUR FLIES.

There were once (our flies that made their way into a certain pantry and determined to have a feast. One flew to the, sugar and ate heartily; but he soon died, for the sugar was full of white lead.'

The second chose the flour as his diet, but he fared no better, for the flour was loaded with plaster of Paris,

The third sampled the syrup, and his six lebs were presently raised in the air, for the syrup was coloured with anilin dyes. The fourth fly seeing all his friends dead, determined to end his life also, and drank deeply of the fly-poison which he found in a convenient saucer.

He is still alive and in good health. That, too, was adulterated.-"Die Gartenlaube."