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Burrowing Fleas, which dig into man's flesh, become distended with a huge number of eggs. The sufferer works about the prospective flea family with a thorn, carefully removes the parent flea. Unless great care is taken the body will be broken, the operation rendered useless. Often a salve made from crushed ants is applied to such open wounds...
...motor car shipped to Persia today. . . Finds honey in rafters. . . Queen Mary's collection of embroidery exhibited. . . Thinks he saw Great Pagoda from flagpole. . . Parrot embargo makes bedlam of quiet town. . Volunteer killed as tree falls. . . Horse takes motor parts; owner put on probation. . Yonkers bans all-night parking. . Flea bites please dogs for a time, says expert
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
...Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years...
...error. Blind Senator Schall's police dog Lux is no "flea-hound...