The Flea at the Court of Justice
The Flea fell silent for a few moments.
‘What happened next?’ the little Child’s crystalline voice was heard.
“What happened next,” the Flea repeated. “I ended up in the Court, as those idiots said! Pleasant surprises. You could not expect any from them. Once there, the damned cat untied the mouth of the sack. Praise the Lord! Just a little more and I would have probably suffocated because of the stench! But I hadn’t even managed to inhale a mouthful of air before I heard him say:
‘Where are your weapons of war, you murderer?!’
The Tiger Tomcat was yelling out loud so that all judges might hear him, acting on purpose, as in the theatre, but I was feeling more in control of myself now. I handed them to him with an innocent air:
‘Here you are!’ I replie
