In east Belfast, a passing po lice patrol rescued two elderly Protestant sisters when a petrol bomb set their home alight.
Her clothes are dirty, she has bruises covering her arms and legs and lice visible in her hair.
(In The Ten Commandments, though, Cecil B DeMille only managed four plagues: he couldn't work out how to do frogs, flies, lice, boils, locusts or the death of livestock with the special-effects technology of the 1950s).
The other six are only mentioned in passing, because DeMille couldn't work out how to do frogs, flies, lice, boils, locusts or the death of livestock.
It was like sliding out of a stuffy room (she always noticed smells, whether of animal hide, lice, peas, unwashedness) to thrust her nose into cool fresh air, or running out into the bush of her Rhodesian childhood, with its miles of tawny grass shining in the sun.
Oklahoma's governor, Mary Fallin, complains of chickenpox, scabies and lice among children brought to her state.
The caged fish can be kept clear of lice by regular doses of chemicals.
Escapees from fish farms risk polluting these wild genes just as the parasitic lice that plague fish farms spread to salmon that swim free.
As she noted ruefully in her book "Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos", a popular study of parasitism, "Birds' fleas and feather lice do not sing.
Nor do they fly about flashing brilliantly coloured wings in the sunshine...The collectors of fleas and lice can be counted on the fingers of one hand!" Yet she loved them.
The lice that fly fishermen blame for a decline in native salmon are being dealt with.
