CHAPTER XXXI IN THE COW STABLE.
"ISN'T it a strange thing," said Miss Laura, "that a little thing like a fly, can cause so much annoyance to animals as well to people?
Sometimes when I am trying to get more sleep in the morning, their little feet tickle me so that I am nearly frantic and have to fly out of bed." "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.

Suppose your whole body was covered with them; and you were tied up somewhere and could not get loose.

I can't imagine more exquisite torture myself.
Last summer the flies here were dreadful.

It seems to me that they are getting worse and worse every year, and worry the animals more.

I believe it is because the birds are getting thinned out all over the country.