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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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d the babies—little tiny bits of worms they are—crawldown to the water, and go to work. Now they want to sink deepinto the water, while at the same time, they must have air tobreathe. So they have a long sort of pipe which they stick upabove the water, and the deeper they sink, the longer is the pipe.See them in the picture on opposite page. There they stay for some time, eating the unhealthy matter,and then they crawl up to a dry place, pull in the pipe till it is allcoiled up like a rope. The mother of these industrious babies — Iforgot to tell you—is a Fly. Cess-pool Fly, we call her, but thewise books call her Helopkilus. Its an awful name—isnt it?—but she dont care a snap, shes too busy. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. ISO Ive told you how insect babies do ; eat awhile, and then wrapthemselves up in some tight cover and stay there in the dark tilltheir wings grow, and they come out of their houses regular insectslike their mothers. Well, these babies do just the same, of course,
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and come out Cess-pool Flies, ready to set their babies to work onthe first pool they find. Cess-pools are not the only bad places. There are the sewers,filled with all the drainage of the city. Many would die from thebad odors from them, but for another little servant, the Sewer Fly.She is so hairy she looks something like a bee, and she lives in thesewers. You neednt pity her—she likes it—thats what she wasmade for. I suppose people who live in cities, have no servants—little orbig—who do so much good as these two little Flies. Theres another one though, that is very busy, and youveprobably seen her, for she finds her babies food in our pantries andcellars, and she is none of your quiet little workers. She bustlesaround with a loud buzz. Her work is to remove bad meat, andalmost before you know there is danger to our meat, she finds itout and puts her family to work at once. She has several names ; 190 LITTLE FOLKS the common one is Blow Fly, and of course, she has an imposi

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