Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-11-27
SUM NATRAL HISTROY.

FLEAs- The smallest animal of the brute
creation, and the most pesky, IL the Fleas.
They are about the bigness ov an onion
seed, and shine like bran new shot.
They spring from low places, and can spring
further and faster than emmy of the bug
bru.cs. -r.:.a ...... ..
They bite wuss than the musksstoze, for
they bite on run /; one flea will 90 aul over
a mans suburbs, in 2 minnits, and leave him
as freckled as the meazles.
1t is impossible to do anything well with O
flea on you except sware, and tieas ain't
afraid Of that the only way il to quit biA>
ness ov aul kinds and hunt for the flea, and
when you have found him he amt thare.--
This il one Of the aea mysteries, the fackulty
they have ov being entirely lost jist IS you
have found them. ....
don't suppose tbare 10 ever killed, on an
average, during emmy one year, more than l6
feas in the whole ov the United States ov
America, unless there is q causualty of some
kind-once in while thsre is dog gifts
drowned sudden, and then thare may be O
few feas lost.
They are about az hard to kill az frxseed
IT, and if you don't mash them up as fine as
ground pepper they will start bizness again
on a smaller kapiraI jist az pcstiverous az
ever. -s
There IL lots ov people who have never
seen flea, and it takes pretty smart man
tew see one ennyhow they don't stsy long
in place.
If you ever ketch flea, kill him before yu
do eDnything else for if you do put it off 2
minnits, it may be too late,
Menny flea has passed away forever in
less than 2 minnits.
BED BuGs.-I never seen anybody yet
but what despized Bed Bug. They are the
meanest of aul crawling, creeping, hopping
or bIteing things.
They dazent tackle man bi dslite, but
sneak in after dark, and chaw him while he
iz fast asleep. .. ...
A musketo will fite you in broad dalite, at
short range, and give you fair chance to
knock in his sides-the flea is q game bug, and
will make dash at you even in Broadway
but the bed bug is garroter, who waits till
you strip, and then pick out a mellow place
tew eat you.
III waz in the habit Of swearing, i wouldn't
hesitate to cuss a bed bug rite tew his face.
Bed bugs are uncommon smart in small
way, one pair of them will stock hair mat
trcss in weeks with bugs enuff tew last
small family whole year.
1t don't do emmy good to pray when bed
bugs are in season /; the only way to git rid
of them is tew bile up the whole bed in aqua
fortis, and then heave it away and buy new
one.
Bed bugs when they have grone aul they
intend to, are about the size of bluejay's
eve and have brown complexion, and when
they start out to garrote are az thin az a
grease spot, but when they 81 thru CARROT
ing they are swelled up like blister.
1t takes them 2 days tew git the swelling
| out 0V luem,
Ifbed bugs have emmy destiny to fill it
| must be their stummucks, but it seems tew
me that they must have been made by acci-
dent, just as sliVvers are, tew stick into sum-
| boldly.
Ifthey wuz got up for some wise purpose
they must have took the wrong road for there
kant be emmy wisdom in chawing man aul'
mite long, and raising family besides to fol-
! ler the came trade.
If thare is some wisdum In au this, hope
the bed bugs will chaw them folks who kan
see it, and leave me be, bekause l am ono oV
the heriticks.