I think this must be so, for I see plenty of blind people every day, and I do not remember seeing any children that hadn't sore eyes.

And, would you suppose that an American mother could sit for an hour, with her child in her arms, and let a hundred flies roost upon its eyes all that time undisturbed?
I see that every day.

It makes my flesh creep.

Yesterday we met a woman riding on a little jackass, and she had a little child in her arms -- honestly, I thought the child had goggles on as we approached, and I wondered how its mother could afford so much style.

But when we drew near, we saw that the goggles were nothing but a camp meeting of flies assembled around each of the child's eyes, and at the same time there was a detachment prospecting its nose.