That flea would be President of the United States, and you couldn't any more prevent it than you can prevent lightning. Mars Tom, I never knowed dey was so much TO de beas'. No, sir, I never had no idea of it, and dat's de fac'. There's more to him, by a long sight, than there is to any other cretur, man or beast, in proportion to size. 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.