![]() I have been conscious of this original defect, and, with a soul far above the vulgar instincts of my race. But I submit that I have other and nobler aims than the mere sustaining of my being by the contributions of the unwary. I am not the lowest by any means of that universal fraternity, and if I sustain a precarious existence upon the bodies of those with whom I come in contact, my own experience proves that I do so in a marked and peculiar manner, with a warning of my employment which is seldom given by those in other grades of my profession. I have heard it somewhere remarked that my province was to get my living by blood sucking. I can only remind him that there are intelligences, little suspected by the vulgar, and laws in nature, the very existence of which have not yet been detected by the advanced among the scientific world. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walk-or perhaps, I should have said jump-in life, became possessed of the learning, observation and power of commit-ting to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate. 775583 The Autobiography of a Flea - Chapter IÄ«orn I was-but how, when, or where I cannot say so I must leave the reader to accept the assertion " per se, " and believe it if he will. ![]()
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