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That's because your people were among the also-rans." "How about yourself?" Billy asked. "I ain't seen you holdin' any hands." "I don't have to. I don't count. I am a parasite." "What's that?" "A flea, a woodtick, anything that gets something for nothing. I batten on the mangy hides of the workingmen. I don't have to gamble. I don't have to work. My father left me enough of his winnings.
"The woodtick sucks the blood of the dog, but the germ, being so very small, goes right into the blood of the body, and there it has many children. In those days there would be as many as a billion a crab-shell, please as many as that crab-shell in one man's body. We called germs micro-organisms. When a few million, or a billion, of them were in a man, in all the blood of a man, he was sick.
You know what sickness is. We called it a disease. Very many of the diseases came from what we called germs. Remember that word germs. A germ is a very small thing. It is like a woodtick, such as you find on the dogs in the spring of the year when they run in the forest. Only the germ is very small. It is so small that you cannot see it " Hoo-Hoo began to laugh.
Harms, whom I met in San Francisco. "Say! I've worked fur some nutty owners, but this yap's the limit. "'Well, Alci, here comes Alcy now, I says, as the boy comes up with the dog, 'n' my new boss stretches his number three neck out of his number nine collar 'n' blinks at the hoss. "Alcibides comes back to the stall with me 'n' from then on he sticks to me tighter 'n a woodtick.
Thus the troublesome woodtick, formerly very abundant in the North Eastern, as it unhappily still is in native forests in the Southern and Western States, has become nearly or quite extinct in the former region since the woods have been reduced in extent and laid more open to the sun and air. Introduction of Insects.
I just feel it's my duty to tell ye that your little Albert is sparkin' up to somebody else. He's waitin' on a party by the name of Padeline no, Madeline Woodtick no, Fosdick and . . . Here! let go of me! What are you doin'?" That last question was in the nature of a gurgle.
Jiggers got into our feet when sleeping on the ground, and these caused great pain and annoyance. Someone has described a jigger as "a cross between Satan and a woodtick." The little insects lay their eggs between the skin and flesh. When the young hatch out, they begin feeding on the blood, and quickly grow half an inch long and cause an intense itching.
We all know, of our selves, that we often grope, are often lost, and are never so much lost as when we think we know where we are and all about ourselves. What is the personality of a lunatic but a personality a little less, or very much less, coherent than ours? What is the personality of a moron? Of an idiot? Of a feeble- minded child? Of a horse? A dog? A mosquito? A bullfrog? A woodtick?
I don't know's I shan't have you sue her." "I don't want to. I told you this mornin' I didn't care nothin' about marryin' her. And you didn't want me to yourself. Now that it's all over you ought to be happy, I should think. I don't see what you're growlin' about." "No, I suppose you don't. You you," with withering contempt, "you haven't got the self-respect of of a woodtick.
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