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Updated: June 17, 2025
There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O. Of these pictorial acquisitions Mr Meagles spoke in the usual manner.
The storekeeper's voice was soft, confidential, ingratiating. "Mr. Fraser and I have come to say that Mr. Matthews is wanted to serve as interpreter for Colonel Cummings." "Interpreter?" queried Matthews. A bullet-head made itself visible from behind a barrel. "Don't let him bluff y', Nick," called a voice. The other looked round. "Shut y' fly-trap, Babe," he commanded.
And the man behind all this, the largest bond-holder, the fellow that has pulled the strings, is not the Fly-Trap King, or even J. Collins Prescott, but the man he works for, Ogden Van Lennop, whose present address happens to be Crowheart. What's the answer? Why has a man like Van Lennop who is there on the ground and has long been familiar with conditions, why has he become the largest investor?
The Dionæa, or Venus's fly-trap, is a famous example of this fastidiousness, growing in a small district of North Carolina, and, as far as appears, nowhere else, a highly specialized plant, with no generic relative.
The Venus fly-trap responds to as delicate a stimulus as do any of the contact ceptors of animals, and the motor activity resulting from the stimulus is as complex. To an insect-like touch the plant responds; to a rough contact there is no response; that is, the motor mechanism of the plant has become attuned to only such stimuli as simulate the contact of those insects which form its diet.
"We make them grow and destroy them, without observing anything analogous to the sensation we feel in rearing, wounding, or killing an animal." "But the fly-trap, father, what of that?" "It is no exception.
As he concluded, he turned from the window and sat down by a small table, upon which a lighted lamp had been placed, and where a few law papers were awaiting a perusal. A little boy and girl were sitting opposite to him. The boy was playing with a small fly-trap, wherein he had already imprisoned a vast number of buzzing sufferers.
Only a brief chapter is devoted to Dionaea of North Carolina, the Venus's fly-trap, albeit, "from the rapidity and force of its movements, one of the most wonderful in the world."
"I think you are!" she said, coldly "You seem to be a man, but you have not the feelings of a man!" "Oh, have I not!" and he gave a light gesture of indifference "I have the feelings of a modern man, the 'Kultur' of a perfect super-German! Yes, that is so! Sentiment is the mere fly-trap of sensuality the feeler thrust out to scent the prey, but once the fly is caught, the trap closes.
The race, the caste and often the province of a resident of India may be determined by his headgear. The Parsees wear tall fly-trap hats made of horse hair, with a top like a cow's foot; the Mohammedans wear the fez, and the Hindus the turban, and there are infinite varieties of turbans, both in the material used and in the manner in which they are put up.
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