If Snodgrass, in making a desperate effort to catch the fly, had permitted the ball to go to Devore the chances are that Speaker's hit would have resulted in an out, so that New York lost on the play.

This man, my lords, who looks as though he could not hurt a fly, used to chop off heads as easily as a dog sits down.

"One throw more," said Smith, "and I've done;" and he cast his fly across the still water just above the fall.

" "You shall have some netting to put over your bed," said Mrs. Wood; "but suppose, Laura, you had no hands to brush away the flies.

While Hunter climbed down and skinned out the heads I turned in pursuit of the one which I had first fired at, for we both thought he had been hit, having seen hair fly.

The river was low, and a broad rock, smooth and bare, sloping gently to the water's edge, under which the stream whirled as it entered the lake, and above which tall trees towered, casting over it a pleasant shade, presented a tempting place to throw the fly.

If the waiters would drive a few flies out of the dining-room, we wouldn't sit down quite so many at table.

I can't kill a fly but it's 'Brother Abe, lemme bury him fer yew.'

I took off the fly from my line, and fastened upon it half a dozen snells with bare hooks, attached a small sinker, and dropped quietly among them.

Yet has he too his own pleasure, His breakfast hour's his hour of leisure; And, left alone, he reads or muses, Or else in idle mood he uses To sit and watch the vent'rous fly, Where the sugar's piled high, Clambering o'er the lumps so white, Rocky cliffs of sweet delight.

'All whither,' cries Narcissus, 'dost thou fly? Let me still feed the flame by which I die; Let me still see, though I'm no further blessed.'

'How then?' 'I send my flies all over the country, sir, to Salisbury and Hungerford, and up to Winchester, even; and the money buys me many a wise bookall my delight is in reading; perhaps so much the worse for me.'

Let this joint hang as long as possible without becoming tainted, and while hanging dust flour over it, which keeps off the flies, and prevents the air from getting to it.

" Markham flicked a fly from the donkey's ear.

"I thanked him and said, a good deal to his surprise, that I was not going to stop in Branchester, but would hire a fly and drive to my destination.

The center-fielder knocked a fly into the hands of the first baseman, who stood on the bag.

The dear little rose-breasted gross-beak carefully examines the potato plants, and picks off the beetles, the martins destroy weevil, the quail and grouse family eats the chinch-bug, the woodpeckers dig the worms from the trees, and many other birds eat the flies and gnats and mosquitoes that torment us so.

I stood, of course, in a hideously false position, and that he very soon began to divine; he would not hear of my getting a fly at that hour of the night, but insisted on driving me in his trap to wherever I wished to go.

I doubt they haven't found the right fly yet for publicans and sinners to rise at.'

A hardy-looking, brown-faced man, with close-cropped black hair, and a mild countenance, sat on a table by the window, making artificial flies, for fishing.

'You seem to be fond enough of it, and to know enough about it, at all events,' said the colonel, 'tying flies here on a sick-bed.' 'As for being fond of it, sirthose creatures of the water teach a man many lessons; and when I tie flies, I earn books.'

As I tried to get the sight on him I heard other turkeys fly, and the crack-crack of R.C.'s gun.

There is a fly which exteriorly much resembles the house-fly, and which is often very troublesome about this time; this is called the stinging fly, one of the greatest plagues to cattle, as well as to persons wearing thin stockings.

Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy fly to Lewis.

When they were he would crush this tool of his as surely and as carelessly as he would have crushed a fly.