Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Chafauqua Lake, N. Y., has lately been infested with a great plague of flies. For some days they have gathered around the shores at Mayville in such quanities as to darken the landscape. They are very short lived, and on one morning two and a half baskets of dead flies were swept from the front varandah of the chief hotel in that village. On the opposite side of the street, where a fresh coating of green paint had been applied, the pests lay to the depth of six inches.