I thank thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?

1894, Philip Stewart Robinson, Birds of the Wave and Woodland, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page,
The bats wheel overhead, their soft wings crumpling as they turn their somersaults, but never a voice in the air, save sharp needle-points of sound, as flittermouse calls to flittermouse.

They don't bump into folk, blind people don't. They're like flittermice. You never saw two flittermice bump into each other.

Flittermouse

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