y attack
animals it cannot kill, and that it knows it cannot kill. David had at
least a chance to kill Goliath, but what chance has a flea to kill a
camel? None at all unless the camel commits suicide. And dogs! A flea
will attack the most ferocious dog and think nothing of it at all. I
have seen it myself. That is true bravery. And not only that--not only
will one flea attack a dog--but hundreds of fleas will attack the same
dog at the same time. I have seen that myself, too. And that multiplies
the bravery of the flea just that much. One flea attacking a dog is
brave; one hundred fleas attacking the same dog are therefore one
hundred times as brave. We really had to give the dog away, he was
carrying so much bravery around with him all the time.

Think of educating an animal with a brain about the size of the point of
a fine needle! And that was what Professor Jocolino had done. The flea
is really one of nature's wonders, like Niagara Falls, and Jojo the
dog-faced man, and the Ca