The little girl Maria experiences a moment where she's studying a fly so intently that she feels that she and it have become one; but she's not able to get grownups to listen when she tells about it.
First published in G.K.'s Weekly, 19 September 1925.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1925 |
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Broomsticks and Other Tales | Constable & Co. Ltd. | Collection | |11 |
| 1925 |
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Broomsticks and Other Tales | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 302 |
| 1936 | The Nap, and Other Stories | Thomas Nelson & Sons | Collection | ||
| December 1942 | The Old Lion, and Other Stories | Faber and Faber | Collection | ||
| 1947 |
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Collected Stories for Children | Faber and Faber | Collection | |
| 1977 |
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Collected Stories for Children | Puffin Books in association with Faber and Faber | Collection | 410 |
| February 2006 |
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Short Stories for Children | Giles de la Mare Publishers | Collection | |11 |
| July 2012 |
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Short Stories for Children | Giles de la Mare Publishers | Collection |