“Well, in de second place, birds is creturs dat goes a long ways, but a flea don’t.”
“He don’t, don’t he? Come, now, what is a long distance, if you know?”
“Why, it’s miles, and lots of ’em—anybody knows dat.”
“Can’t a man walk miles?”
“Yassir, he kin.”
“As many as a railroad?”
“Yassir, if you give him time.”
“Can’t a flea?”
“Well—I s’pose so—ef you gives him heaps of time.”
“Now you begin to see, don’t you, that distance ain’t the thing to judge by, at all; it’s the time it takes to go the distance in that counts, ain’t it?”