Now I'm not frightened of this world believe me

Fezziwig, our pet mouse, died.

( Cut for being a discussion of pet health. )

And to close out here's a couple pictures of Fezziwig that I was scheduled to post this coming week anyway.

Fezziwig sitting on top of a paper towel tube, judging whether to leap down. You get a good view of his 'pants' here.

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And here the little guy is standing up by the bars with hope. He was always optimistic and we tried giving him reason to be.

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He was hard to photograph. He was always fast-moving, and lived in a corner of the house that's always terribly dark. And he was only really behaving naturally when in his cage, which was translucent plastic with a couple windows cut out and covered by metal bars, a hard thing to focus through. But we have some that are great and many times we could remember.

Trivia: In May 1574 Henry, who had been crowned King of Poland three months earlier, fled the country in disguise and under cover of darkness (and taking with him diamonds from the Polish crown valued at 300,000 écus) for France, where he would reign as Henry III. (This following the unexpected death of his brother, Charles IX.) Source: A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich.

Reference: A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order, Judith Flanders.