"The first home I passed, a little tot of a boy, sitting on the step, was eating milk and mush out of a bowl. When he took the spoon from his mouth I got into it and sucked all the milk I could get. I left him the germs that I had been carrying. This was a pretty good day's work, don't you think? The next morning I flew away to the next house, but dear me, I found that a fly would have to carry his own rations there. "This was a new thing to me. I met one of my friends who told me that it would be just as well for me to travel on. The folks who lived in this house had been going to the lectures of the Health Doctor. The doctor had told them to clean up the stable, to screen the house, and to cover the well. I tell you, Mrs. Mosquito, that man is trying to put me out of business. I fear that I shall have a hard time in the future if he stays in this neighborhood. I am not as happy as I once was, so I will say good-bye." "Good-bye, friend Fly," said Mrs. Mosquito, "I am glad we met near our old home." QUESTIONS 1. Where did the mosquito meet the fly? 2. What did the mosquito carry? 3. What did the fly do to the man who had small-pox? 4. Why could not the fly get in the house in the country? 5. What was the Health Doctor teaching the people in the country? A HYGIENE SONG TUNE:--"YE-HO" A FOLK SONG [Illustration: Music] 1. We're for happiness and health, hurrah! But we have no claims on wealth, hurrah! And we stand for all that's clean, Flies must go, this sure doth mean, So we trap and swat and screen, hurrah! 2. We're for sunshine and fresh air, hurrah! Microbes cannot live in there, hurrah! Sanitation is our aim, No mosquitoes do we claim, For we oil and screen and drain, hurrah! Chorus: Then it's rah, rah, rah, for the Hygiene work, The best we've ever done. We'll have none who duty shirk, We'll have only those who work, Many to our cause are won, hurrah! [Illustration] OUR LITTLE ENEMIES "Hello, Central, give me 1882, Mrs. Consumption Germ. Oh, is that you, I am so glad to hear your voice. Do tell me what you have been doing this long time!" "Oh, my good friend Pneumonia, I have been hiding away all these years to keep the doctors from finding me. I did not want them to learn about me. I feared that they would destroy me entirely. "But with all my care, do you know that just a few years ago, an old German doctor pulled me out of my hiding place and showed me to the world. Since then I and my family have had little peace.