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Updated: May 4, 2025
Man is being constantly preyed upon by insects; and were it not for ordinary cleanliness, he would become a mass of vermin; even this does not protect him from the rapacity of ticks, mosquitoes, fleas and many others. Intestinal worms feed on him within, and, unseen, use their slow efforts for his destruction.
You see, the men have nothing but water to drink; tobacco's getting scarce; there's no bread, no coffee, no vegetables; and the men have very little to do but rub down their horses to keep 'em clear of ticks: the consequence is that they try to make up for it all by keeping on eating beef, and then sleeping as hard as ever they can."
In a minute perhaps it was a little longer a brass matrix slipped from the magazine and clicked down into the assembler; in a second or two another fell, and then, very slowly, like the ticks of a great clock, the brasses slipped slipped slipped into their places, and the steel spaces dropped into theirs. A line was formed, while the boy's hands lay in his lap.
She rose to have another look at the hoddy-place in which she had concealed the glove from her husband, and as she did so she caught sight of him at the window. He bobbed at once, but she hastened to the door to scarify him. The clock had given only two ticks when she was upon him, but in that time she had completely changed her plan of action. She welcomed him with smiles of pride.
It has often been reported that fleas have been found hopping on the ground in desert places, where they could not have been dropped by man or beast; and it has been assumed that these "independent" fleas must, like gnats and ticks, subsist on vegetable juices.
Twenty minutes later, the real Miss Bulstrode, on a visit to her aunt in Kensington, was surprised at receiving, enclosed in an envelope, the following hastily scrawled note: "Want to speak to you at once alone. Don't yell when you see me. It's all right. Can explain in two ticks. Your loving brother, JOHNNY." It took longer than two ticks; but at last the Babe came to an end of it.
Thus the house-fly may carry the typhoid germs on its feet or in its body and distribute them in places where they may enter the human body. Several other flies as well as fleas, bedbugs, ticks, etc., may also carry disease germs in this mechanical way.
It is of a black hue glossed with green, equalling a pigeon in size its long tail adding to its apparent length. Its chief food consists of grasshoppers, locusts, and small lizards, but it rids cows of the ticks and other parasitic insects which fasten on their backs, where they cannot be rubbed off.
The leader of the herd, a sturdy, shaggy animal of exceptional size, stood a little apart from the others, on guard and on the lookout for danger. These birds feed on the ticks or insects which infest the animals' skin, and also give warning of danger.
I was aglow with heat, perhaps also with expectation; my heart throbbed convulsively and irregularly and reminded me of a telegraphic key in an empty, sun-heated railway station, which, left to itself, ticks incessantly. For a long while I sat occupied with my thoughts and staring at the same spot.
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