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As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
"Hett," said the woman carelessly, "let yon flea stick i' the wa'. I fancy I began on ye. Aweel, Cirsty," said she, falling into a friendlier tone; "it's the place we live in spoils us Newhaven's an impudent toon, as sure as deeth. "I passed through the Auld Toon the noo a place I never speak in; an' if they did na glower at me as I had been a strange beast.
"Why are you back here so soon, and why do you bring this flea of a white man with you?" Now this was more than I could bear, so without waiting for my companion's answer I broke in: "You give me a poor name, O Zikali. What would you think of me if I called you a beetle of a wizard?"
"Well, in de second place, birds is creturs dat goes a long ways, but a flea don't." "He don't, don't he? Come, now, what IS a long distance, if you know?" "Why, it's miles, and lots of 'em anybody knows dat." "Can't a man walk miles?" "Yassir, he kin." "As many as a railroad?" "Yassir, if you give him time." "Can't a flea?" "Well I s'pose so ef you gives him heaps of time."
"I should think you clever," he answered after reflection, "for after all I must look something like a beetle with a white head. But why should you mind being compared to a flea?
The woman slowly turned her dark, lowering eyes upon me. Her lips moved, and a stentorian voice, like unto the clanging of iron, rang out: "I am thinking how I may impart more power to the muscles in the legs of a flea, so that it may more readily escape from its enemies. The equilibrium of attack and defence has been destroyed.... It must be restored." "What!" I stammered, in reply.
It was evident that General Yozarro had given this portion recent attention, for the windows, tall, narrow and paneless, had been screened by netting with the finest of meshes, though none can be fine enough to wholly exclude the infinitesimal insects like the coloradilla, or red flea, whose bite is as the point of a red hot needle, the sand fly, and other devilish insects beyond enumeration.
The children were never happier than when Squeaky's nose was hidden in a tin can of buttermilk, and the precious five dollars bought countless numbers of currant buns, sugar cakes, and penny bones for Snatchet. Now Flukey lifted his head proudly and walked with the air of a boy on the road to fortune, and Flea kept at his side with the prince hugged close in her arms.
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
Like the "Snark," he breakfasted at afternoon tea and lived by candlelight instead of sunlight, a wholly fantastic man, though one of great ability. At one time he was what our forefathers called "a man about town," a member of Brook's Club during the Fifties and Sixties, a friend of Thackeray and of "Flemming, the Flea," and a clerk in the Colonial office.
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