HINTS FROM FLEAS. 



We have thus endeavoured briefly to biographize that 

 redoubtable trio of blood-suckers, louse, bug, and flea, those 

 insect Eumenides which scourge both prince and peasant. 

 Does either prince or peasant ask, complainingly, Wherefore am 

 I subject to such vile tormentors ? To the prince we would 

 reply, When your highness finds a flea upon your purple, it 

 comes to remind you that you are of ordinary flesh and blood, 

 that you are nothing better than a man. To the peasant we 

 would answer, When your lowness finds a flea, or something 

 worse, upon your tatters, it comes to teach you that flesh and 

 blood want soap and water, without which you will soon be 

 nothing better than a brute ! 



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