DIRECTIONS FOR SILLING FLIES.
Deeming it to be tbe duty of everyone to give to the world any valuable information whioh he may possess, I hereby eheeiZully give to poor afflicted humanity the benefit of my great discovery, vis., a process for exterminating the house-fly. Firstly, catch your fly. Be sure you do that, otherwise this information will be given in vain.
Secondly, douse him into a barrel of oroton water, head downward.
Thirdly, lay bun in tho sun to dry, but mind you put a brick upon him to hold him down. Aitor one hour and a half of the drying process has elapsed, comes — / Fourthly, take him out, and, with a c&tael's hair pencil, give bim a coat of sbellao/rarnisb, which will so secvoly fasten bis wjrfgs doma that he cannot extricate himself from you* grasp. This done, half the battle's won, and then comes—
Fifthly, lay him on a large smooth rock (ten by twelve feet cubic measure it the best), stand him on one end, so that the effect may prove the more disastrous $ then let another rook of equal dimensions be suspended directly above, and at the report of a cannon cut the rope— dona comes the rook, and your fly is dead. This process is slow but sore. N.B. — Females may be treated in the same manner as the males.
DIRECTIONS FOR SILLING FLIES.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 2431, 7 January 1876, Page 3
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