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126 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
seeing it only by star and moonlight, and
peeping at it while hanging upside-down, half
asleep."
" They are sometimes called flying foxes,"
said the boy-companion.
" 1 think they look more like flying rats"
replied the girl.
" Or like bits of an old family umbrella!"
continued the lad, and laughed at his own
witticism, at the expense of the poor bats.
"Shall I ask the bat to tell its story?" I
asked the little girl; " and I will interpret
it to you as far as I am able to make it
out."
" It will be one of theft and plunder, I
know," said the boy; " for they are also called
vampires."
" Only those from Madagascar," I said, by
way of enlightening him; " and you may
depend upon it, those stories are all
exaggerated, coming from that unexplored and
fabulous country, even yet shrouded in
mystery. But this is a native British one! I don’t
know what it may have to tell."
The bat, still hanging topsy-turvy, peered
at me with its sensible eyes, and, as far as I
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