A READER’S MEDLEY
Much Out of Little A. Frenchman claims to have invented an aeroplane which can be sold for £lOO. lie calls it the “Flying Flea,” and has made many cross-country flights at 100 miles an hour. A harnessed hippopotamus is never used to draw a bus; and no one ever hits the trail for foreign parts upon a whale. When man looks round for large ideas they are not found in Jumbo’s ears, and when he thinks of something big he never picks upon the pig. And yet the little Flying Flea is made to serve humanity by clearing houses, trees and shops in modestly prodigious hops. Yes, out of small things come the great: —by Nature’s whim it is our fate to have to borrow from the flea unparalleled audacity.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 13
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133A READER’S MEDLEY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 13
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