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Rh "I jumped highest after all!" said the flea. "But it doesn't matter! Let her keep that stuck-up bit of a goose with the peg and the cobblers' wax! I jumped highest, anyhow; but I find it is necessary in this world to have substance, if one is to be noticed!"

And so the flea went abroad and enlisted, and there they say he was killed. The grasshopper settled down in a ditch just outside, and pondered over the way things were really managed in this world, and he also said: "Yes, substance is the thing, substance is the thing! "And then he went on singing his own melancholy ditty; and it is from that we have taken this story, which may not be true, although it is printed.