Two years ago I had occasion to visit 21- Armour Avenue, a "50-cent house" in the infamous "bedbug row district."
"Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls"
Jean Turner-Zimmermann
"Back in 1929, Stephen thought I was crazy as a bedbug to sell all my securities and take a paper loss, around the first of September.
"Dearest"
Henry Beam Piper
A bee flies directly to the flower that it wants to reach; a worm crawls to its leaf; a bedbug, a flea, a mosquito scents a man a hundred thousand of its steps away.
"Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales"
Leo Tolstoy