He's the interestingest of them all. People have so much to say about an ant's strength, and an ele- phant's, and a locomotive's. Shucks, they don't begin with a flea. He can lift two or three hundred times his own weight. And none of them can come anywhere near it.
People think all humans are alike to a flea.
It ain't so. There's folks that he won't go near, hungry or not hungry, and I'm one of them. Tom was right. They went for me and Jim by the thou- sand, but not a one of them lit on Tom. We went up to the cold weather to freeze 'em out, and stayed a little spell, and then come back to the comfortable weather and went lazying along twenty or twenty-five miles an hour, the way we'd been doing for the last few hours.