WHY FLITTER THE BAT FLIES AT NIGHT


[Illustration: "It must be fine to fly," thought Peter. "I wish I could
fly."]

Flitter the Bat made Peter Rabbit's head dizzy. Peter couldn't help
watching him. He just had to. It seemed so wonderful that Flitter
could really fly, that whenever he saw him, Peter had to stop and
watch. And then, as he saw Flitter twist and turn, fly high, fly low,
and go round and round, Peter's head would begin to swim and grow
dizzy, and he wondered and wondered how it was that Flitter himself
didn't grow dizzy.

"It must be fine to fly," thought Peter. "I wish I could fly. If I
could, I wouldn't spend all my time flying around the way Flitter
does. I'd go on long journeys and see the Great World. I'd fly way,
way up in the blue, blue sky, the way Ol' Mistah Buzzard does, where I
could look down and see all that is going on in the Green Forest and
on the Green Meadows. And I'd fly in the daytime, because there is
more going on then. I wonder, now, why it is that Flitter never comes
out until after jolly, round, red Mr. Sun has gone to bed behind the
Purple Hills. I never see him in the daytime, and I don't even know
where he keeps himself. I never thought of it before, but I wonder why
it is that he flies only at night. I believe I'll ask Grandfather Frog
the very next time I see him."

Now you know that once Peter Rabbit's curiosity is aroused, it just
has to be satisfied. No sooner did he begin to wonder about Flitter