Leading from the Middle

Caption: Thrutching flea on elephant

Passing into the ark together, said the flea to its big brother: "Now, then, mister! no thrutching!"
Moral: Insignificance has often its full share of self-importance.'
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From 1896 comes reportedly the shortest fable on record. The word thrutching – salacious imagery, akin to “twerking”, aside – contributes to the flea’s contemptuous familiarity and self-importance.
For more of the flea’s world view see
flea and camel,
fly upon a wheel.
and, the fox gets left behind

*Source:
FABLES AND FABULISTS: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
BY THOMAS NEWBIGGING, LONDON:1896.
“(This) is the shortest fable on record; its humour is as conspicuous as its brevity, and it hails from … Lancashire (North West England).”


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