While the bite of a mosquito or a tsetse fly may not be noticed, the bite of a blind-fly is very painful. The female takes about five minutes to gorge itself with blood and when it leaves the host animal its abdomen is so distended that it must fly with difficulty. Once it has started to probe it can be killed or picked off with the fingers quite easily. It is perhaps because of this that the name blind fly came to be used for a fly which has large eyes and is by no means blind.

We became the nation we are on principles of individual initiative, to stand up on our hind legs and lick them if they needed it, and they called it jingoism at one time, […]

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His two cousins are very much alike.