text:  Could one empty a few hatfuls along Pall-Mall or Bond Street on opera nights what an amazement would seize the people! We swept them up into the crown of our hat and could not get enough of them; then we set them flying about our room putting out the lights and shutting the shutters; and then we caught them and began to look more closely at the sources of our delight and to examine the acts and deeds of these wonderful little creatures