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...bill, recently debated in the Lords (TIME, June 22), to prevent cruelty to animals, came up for discussion. Brigadier General Cockerill (Conservative), in defending the flea, indignantly observed that that maxim De minimis non curat Iex meant that "The flea doesn't worry the Home Secretary." Although the flea was not an animal or a reptile, he thought fleas should be included in the bill...
LORD ULLSWATER : "1 would like to ask the Government if the word 'animal' includes 'insects.' I have in mind the flea [laughter]. I am not a trainer of fleas [more laughter], but I should like to know what would happen to a man who .withheld from performing fleas their natural food, which I presume is human flesh? Grave doubt exists, I think, by reason of the word 'animal' not being scientifically defined...
...naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey...
...great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
...flea that bit the rat that had the germ...