As all of you who have watched him know, Flitter is a swift flier.
She stepped over to the very next tree, parted the leaves, and there, sure enough, hung Mrs. Flitter fast asleep.
Obediently Flitter stretched out one of his wings.
It was that Flitter possessed a pair of bright, little, snapping eyes and didn't seem in the least bothered by the bright light.
Because I saw Old Man Coyote sneaking along the edge of the Green Forest, Reddy Fox is hunting on the Green Meadows, and Hooty the Owl is on watch in the Old Orchard," replied Flitter the Red Bat.
Now you can see just why he is called winghanded," explained Old Mother Nature, as Flitter folded the wing.
Flitter the Red Bat is one of the best known of the whole family in this country," said Old Mother Nature, as they left Flitter to resume his nap.
Instead of the long head and sharp nose of the Mouse family, Flitter had a rather round head and blunt nose.
Flitter was still in his mind when he started for school the next morning, and by the time he got there he was bubbling over with curiosity and questions.
I think this is just the time and place for you to really make the acquaintance of Flitter the Red Bat.
There wasn't one who hadn't watched and envied Flitter darting about in the air just at dusk of early evening or as the Black Shadows were stealing away in the early morning.
Mrs. Flitter carries her babies about with her until they are quite big.
We'll have a lesson here every morning just at sun-up.
Why don't you learn to swim, Peter, like your cousin down in the Sunny South?
Could it be that he really didn't know what relatives he had or anything about them?
Why, down in the Sunny South, where I spent the winter, you have a cousin who is more closely related to you than Jumper the Hare.
I live in the dear Old Briar-patch and just love it.
We're taking the small flitter for a tour of the wilderness area tomorrow," said Diana.
When the chauffeur-driven limousine flitter had dropped down to the house's landing pad, Orne had seen a parasol and sunhat nodding to each other on the blue tiles beside the pool.
He looked to the southwest where a flitter was growing larger as it approached.
When we caught the flitter and found it empty, it was obvious that you were with the people, and it became imperative to find you before you came to harm.
And somewhere under the blind wall of the flitter a rock-hard world-face reeling and rushing, leaping to meet them-- The flitter slowed.
The flitterseemed to hurtle forward at comet-like speed.
The flitter crouched in a vastness of red-ochre sand laced with some low-growing plant that shone like metallic gold in the sunlight.
As soon as they caught the ship and found the flitter gone, they'd be after him.
It struck the side of the flitter with a sharp clack, and fell.
Directly in front of the flitter and quite literally a stone's throw away was the beginning of a thick belt of trees that grew beside a river, apparently quite a wide one though he could not see much but a tawny sparkling of water.
Behind him the hatch closed and the flitterstirred and then took off all by itself, humming.
It was a beautiful idea, and the success of it pleased Flitter Bill mightily, but the relief did not last long.
For the last time, next morning he rode down to Flitter Bill's store.
By the way, I have something here for you which Flitter Bill asked me to give you.
Now just above the selfish layers of fat under Flitter Bill's chubby hands was a very kind heart.
Flitter Bill heard the din as he stood by his barn door.
Before man and beast were in full view the work was done, the hands were unclasped, and Flitter Bill, with a chuckle, had slowly risen, and was waddling back to his desk in the store.
Flitter Bill Richmond, I had no idee o' disbandin' the Army of the Callahan, but do you know what I did aim to do?
Like the handwriting of the order that lifted Mayhall like magic into power, the handwriting of this order, that dropped him like a stone--was Flitter Bill's own.
That the flitter stops one, too--or doesn't stop it, rather?
Then, without waiting even to finish the whirl or to straighten her out in level flight, Cloud's still-flying hand darted toward the switch whose closing would energize the Bergenholm and make the flitter inertialess.
Then, making sure that his two companions had ducked for cover, Cloud shot his flitter into the air and toward the seething inferno which was Loose Atomic Vortex Number One.
We can adapt a flitterfor bomb-throwing easily enough.
The flitterhung poised in air, motionless, upon softly hissing under-jets.
Then, so rapidly that it was one blur of speed, he again kicked on his eight G's of drive and started to whirl around as only a speedster or a flitter can whirl.
For, fortunately, the Berg still worked; the flitter and all her contents and appurtenances were inertialess.
In that case, I set my flitter into a projectile trajectory like this, whose objective is the center of the vortex, there.
Thus, when Cloud cut his Bergenholm, restoring thereby to theflitter the absolute velocity and inertia she had had before going free, there resulted a distinctly anti-climactic crash.
The flitter was not even out of the crater when the bomb went off.
But this one had something that the ordinary speedster or flitter did not carry; spaced around the needle beak there yawned the open muzzles of a triplex bomb-thrower.
The tiny control room of the flitter grew hotter and hotter.
And the flitterskimmed down across water which was a rich emerald in hue, filling the crater from one rock wall to the other with no beach at the foot of those precipitant cliffs.
Unless the flitter was deliberately sabotaged, he was planning for us to use our canteens in the preserve.
So they come to the banquet and those on the flitter can take their tri-dee shots at ease.
It was after they left the second station that the flitter swung farther out eastward, again climbing over the chain of heights to sight one of the newly discovered wonders the staff at the last station had reported--a crater lake.
Though to deliberately smash up a flitter and set them all afoot in this wilderness was a pretty drastic move.
One of his duties aboard the Queen was flitter pilot for planetwise trips.
Because I'm inclined to believe that any flitter that tries to reach us may run into the same trouble.
Luckily, they both wore stass belts; but they had to land the flitter and leave until the lioness wandered off, and she seriously damaged the machine in her irritation.
Suddenly there was a snarl behind them and they found themselves sharing the flitter with a lioness annoyed at finding no meat waiting on board.
But one look at the front of the flitter told Dane that it would not take to the air again without extensive repairs.
Putting aside the excuse of fearing another crack-up, the wrecked flitter made no outstanding mark on the ground.
In a very short time they connect the sound of a flitter cutting the air with food.
But the nose of the flitter acted as if it were overweighted or magnetically attracted by the rocks below.
And his slight concern deepened into something else as the flitter began to drop nose again.
Jellico tossed one on the crumpled nose of the flitter and punched its button with the tip of the needler barrel.
He hurried through and twisted into the flitter driver's cage.
Zolan carefully adjusted the controls to slip the flitter away from the screening vessels.
Brad brought his mind back to the present as the flittersettled on the landing pad near air lock 22.
As the flitter rose and headed toward the dome Brad thought back as he weighed their chances.
The framework and cage quivered and the flitter lifted up and away.
Shifting his eyes critically from the checklist to flitter and back, he walked around the tiny flyer inspecting the spars for alignment and cracks.
Tug operator and anyone else that observes my presence or the flitter must not repeat must not log the serial number of my flitter or any of its features.
Zolan stabilized the flitter to hover stationary barely a meter above the frozen methane.
Aligned, Zolan released the tug, and gentling his thrusters, brought his flitter to rest on a landing platform that had articulated from a portal.
Here, Flitter and Flutter, you carry the satchel for Uncle Wiggily, and we'll take him to our house.
And it was on one of the upper slopes that the flitter passed over two of the blue beasts lumbering along.
Hume made a slight adjustment to a dial, and the flitter banked, coming around on another course.
They reached the ledge where the flitter perched just as they had seen it last.
It was mid-afternoon when the flitter took to the air once again, scattering the hovering globes.
No, they hung in a glowing cluster ahead when in the dawn the flitter shot away from the woods, headed for the landmark of the safari camp.
Then Hume added, "If we can reach the flitterbefore sunset, we'll have a chance to fly over the lake down there, to make a taping of it before we go.
Vye watched Hume take over the controls, felt the flitter answer another change of course, then heard the frantic yammer of the distress call as they leveled off to ride its beam in to the hidden camp.
The flitter was boring forwards on a projectile flight, into the dark of the night.
He had not seen the Hunter since they had both been loaded into the Patrol flitter in the gap.
The flitter was at the top of the cliff, as far out of his reach now as if it were in planetary orbit.
He brought the flitter around in a wide circle, the purr smoothed out once more in a steady reassuring beat.
The directive would glide the flitter to the best available landing.
He had invited every one to meet at the Smiling Pool and see Billy Mink do whatever any one else who wore fur could do, and then, when Billy had run and jumped and climbed and swum, Grandfather Frog had called Flitter the Bat.
Did you ever see him cut circles in the air like Flitter the Bat?
Their two alien passengers were out of the flitter as soon as he opened the bubble shield.
In his ear buzzed the comforting hum of the com, tying him with the flitter and so, in a manner, to safety.
The questions from the two at the flittercame together.
He triggered the shield which snapped over them for a windbreak and brought the flitter up into the spreading color of the morning.
But it was evident that they were alive, and as Raf brought the flitter closer, he was also certain that they ran on their two hind feet instead of on an animal's four pads.
It's reverting to grassland--" Raf brought the flitter closer to the ground so that when a domed structure arose out of a tangle of overgrown shrubs and trees they were not more than fifty feet above it.
The flitter had been put through every possible test in his home world.
Then the sensation was gone as the black blot of the flitterbuzzed out of the clouds.
By the time he got back to the flitter or was able to find Hobart and the others, it might already be too late.
By evening he had the flitter assembled save for the motor which still reposed on the turning block.
He did not doubt that there was on board the globe some surprise which could shoot the flitter out of the air, if, for example, he adjusted the controls before him and bore west toward the mountains and the safety of the space ship.
When the undercarriage of the flitter jarred lightly on the rock, he saw signs that this was a man-or alien-fashioned place which must have had much use in the dim past when his new companions ruled all their native world.
They took off, the globe rising like a balloon into the morning sky, the flitter waiting until it was air-borne before scaling after it.
But which was the one that guarded the roof where the flitter rested?
Lablet was saying as Raf climbed into the flitter to tug loose his own roll.
Dane went over the flitter with his small counter and was relieved to find that they had done a good job of shielding under Ali's supervision.
Then the skeleton flitter moved to the left--out into the glare of the early day, a light too bright, even through the shielded viewplates of his helmet.
Now they acted as a beacon to draw the flitter to its berth.
It was mid-afternoon when Dane noted that the green carpet beneath the flitter was displaying holes--that small breaks in the vegetation became sizable stretches of rocky waste.
The flitter spiraled up into the sunlight and Dane wondered how long it would be before this outrage was reported to the nearest Plant Police base.
But in that passing how much had he and the flitter become contaminated?
It was only when they were standing by the flitter and he saw the suits that his eyes widened and he said: "The Big Burn!
He stepped up the power of the flitter to the top notch and saw with some relief that the ground beneath them was now the rocky waste bordering the devastated area.
As the outer port of the flitter berth closed Dane reached over and pulled loose the lashing which immobilized his companion.
Sometimes pockets of these made a core of light which pulsed, sending warning fingers at the flitter which sped across it.
He skimmed across it and brought the flitter down in a rock cliff walled sand pocket with surf booming some yards away, where he would be reasonably sure of safe hiding.
Tell us why Flitter the Bat can fly when none of the other animals can," cried one of the Merry Little Breezes.
Old Mr. Bat was little, quite as little as Flitter is now.
A long time ago when the world was young, the great-great-ever-so-great grandfather of Flitter the Bat first learned to fly.
If I could, I wouldn't spend all my time flying around the wayFlitter does.
Flitter flies at night because he is safest then, and because he can find plenty to eat.
No sooner did he begin to wonder about Flitter the Bat than he could think of nothing else.
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.
It seemed so wonderful that Flitter could really fly, that whenever he saw him, Peter had to stop and watch.
