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Why, he must eat his own fleas! But the painter did not attempt to force his opinions upon others, so the kennel and the kitchen fared better than the parlour. The servants were indulgently treated, permitted to eat as they pleased, and die in their own fashion of repletion or apoplexy, if it seemed good to them.
The parasite would often seem to hold the balance of power. Jonathan Swift's epitome of the subject, if not specifically true, is at least correct in its general application: "A flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum."
She enjoyed the play of his face, which was antique in style and jovial in expression. But she did not always understand what he said. She asked Jacques: "What did he say?" "Do you really wish to know?" Yes, she wished to know. "Well, he said he should be happy if the fleas in his bed were shaped like you!" When she had eaten the ice, he asked her to return to San Michele. It was so near!
The abbe was astonished, for he could not conceive how anyone could eat at such an early hour. They let us walk for an hour in the garret and then shut us up again, and we saw no more of them throughout the day. The fleas which tormented us made the abbe ask why I did not have the cell swept out.
I do not like to trouble the reader with a frequent reference to the myriads of fleas and other vermin which infest the rancherias and old mission establishments in California; but, if any sinning soul ever suffered the punishments of purgatory before leaving its tenement of clay, those torments were endured by myself last night.
At Leghorn Cooper engaged a Genovese felucca, "La Bella Genovese, a craft of thirty tons, beautiful mould, lateen-rigged, carrying two of that sail and a jib, and ten men for her crew." Aboard this small vessel the author and his family spent six days of pure pleasure, yet "somewhat bitten by fleas."
The setting ablaze of the five casks, and later on of the eight casks, by the Grand Master, was a signal for the others to kindle their fires in the different parts of the town." In Greece, the custom of kindling fires on St. John's Eve and jumping over them is said to be still universal. One reason assigned for it is a wish to escape from the fleas.
They used to try 'em all, big and little, wild and domesticated, mammals and invertebrates." "Oh, come!" exclaimed Tutt. "I may not know much law, but " "Between 1120 and 1740 they prosecuted in France alone no less than ninety-two animals. The last one was a cow." "A cow hasn't much intelligence," observed Tutt. "And they tried fleas," added Mr. Tutt.
I'll take keer uv you. There hain't no man on Elk River kin take keer uv you better nor Tim Price, ary time. I hain't much up to moon men, though. Thar's one feller up my way thet gits kinder skeery at the full uv the moon; but I hain't never tended him. I reckon I kin l'arn the job, ez the ole boy said when his marm set him to mindin' fleas off the cat."
Asked the merchant, "What wilt thou give me?"; and the other answered, "We agreed for a Sa'a-measure of whatever thou shouldst desire; so, if thou wilt, take it full of gold and silver." "Not I," rejoined the merchant, "Not I! nothing shall serve me but I must have it full of fleas, half male and half female."
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