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But there was yet another destroyer of comfort by day, and this was the Blue-bottle flies. There seemed more of them as time went on, and they laid masses of yellowish eggs on anything that smelled like meat or corruption.
CARTHAMUS tinctorius. SAFFLOWER. The Seeds. These have been celebrated as a cathartic: they operate very slowly, and for the most part disorder the bowels, especially when given in substance; triturated with aromatic distilled waters, they form an emulsion less offensive, yet inferior in efficacy to more common purgatives. CENTAUREA Cyanus. BLUE-BOTTLE. The Flowers.
My friend Tommy Dott was standing at the window, chasing a blue-bottle fly, for want of something better to do; and the steward was waiting for orders behind the captain's chair.
She was tempted to drop her fingers and exclaim: "Do sit down, Sally, and tell me how you manage it how you manage, that is, to bustle about with perfect confidence in the necessity of your own activities, which to me seem as futile as the buzzing of a belated blue-bottle." She said nothing of the kind, however, and the presence of industry which she preserved so long as Mrs.
His mother's words dropped like balm upon Horace's wounded spirit. He looked up, and felt himself a man again. When Flyaway knew she was going to New York, it was about as easy to fit her dresses as to clothe a buzzing blue-bottle fly. With spinning head and dancing feet, she was set down, at last, in the cars. "Here we are, all by ourselves, darling, starting off for Gotham.
Fledgeling goldfinches and linnets, young rabbits, young squirrels, even the nest of the harvest-trow mouse, and occasionally a snake, bring him in a little money. He picks the forget-me-nots from the streams and the 'blue-bottle' from the corn: bunches of the latter are sometimes sold in London at a price that seems extravagant to those who have seen whole fields tinted with its beautiful azure.
The rest of the family were seen once or twice, when passing through London, but only in calls, which, as Babie said, were as good as nothing, except, as she forgot to add, that they broke through the constraint on her correspondence with Sydney. And we alike must shun regard >From painter, player, sportsman, bard, Wasp, blue-bottle, or butterfly, Insects that swim in fashion's sky. Scott.
Mem. for Agriculturists. Protect the birds and the insects will be in their crops. Destroy the birds and the crops will be in the insects. Humming-birds don't hum with their mouths. The humming is the vibration of their wings while flying for the same reason that a blue-bottle or an aeroplane hums." Pearson's Weekly.
In his natural state he lives chiefly on blue-bottle flies and mixed pickles, but in captivity it is found that so rich a diet has a tendency to make him stout, and he is now fed exclusively on old corks and back numbers of some daily paper. People come here before breakfast to hear it, and when they have heard it, they assure us that they never heard anything like it before.
It just seemed as if a dark blur whizzed about more bird-like than beast-like around the astonished and prancing heron, and then into nowhere. It was like watching a blue-bottle in a tumbler, and very extraordinary. The heron never even professed to follow it or lunge at it. He preferred the water-vole, whose agility was not too fast to see.
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