Bed Bug and the Louse

In the room of a dirty girl, there were swarms of bed bugs living in the pleats of mattress,
mat, pillows, bolsters and mosquito net. And there were a lot of dirty lice in her head with kinky
hair.

One day, the girl was combing lice out of the hair, putting them down on the mat and
crushing them with thumbnail when a big louse ran away to hide in the lace of the mat.

Swarms of bed bugs on seeing the frightened lice hiding themselves laughed mockingly
at them and said: eh, brother lice! Have you stolen sucking people’s blood enough? Why do you
come to greet us? You must be very happy because there are a plough and a harrow to plough
and harrow you every day. As for us, we do not have such to eat like you, brother.

The lice were very angry. They knew that the bed bugs envied them as they had not much
to eat, so they insulted the bed buds: Hey, you have the stench even when you are still alive. We
know that you must envy us because you cannot steal sucking people’s blood enough. As for us,
you must not despise us. Although people try hard to plough or harrow, we will never be
completely destroyed except when the end of the world by fire comes.

While the bed bugs and the lice were arguing, the girl stopped combing the hair and lied
to sleep. Out of being very angry with the bed bugs, the lice bit the girl’s head so hard that she
could not sleep still so that the bed bugs could not suck her blood. The girl felt so annoyed when
she could not sleep as her head was bitten hard by the lice that she got up and asked her mother
to shave her head. While her head was being shaved, the lice panicked and told one another that:
it is the end of the world now and we will soon be destroyed. After having had her head shaved,
the girl gathered the hair fraught with dirty lice and lice’s eggs, burn it up and then came back to
sleep. Upon seeing the girl’s shaved head, the bed bugs were delighted and though: we will suck
all the blood along and there will be nobody interfering because all the lice were gone.

Some bed bugs tried to bite the girl’s shaved head. The girl kept scratching the head and
thought: my hair is all gone and what lice are biting my head? Later on, when her head was
bitten again, the girl got up and saw some beg bugs crawling on the pillow. She became so
furious that she gathered pillow, bolster, mosquito net and the mattress and soaked them in the
boiling water, killing all the bed buds.