Corky, my beloved, has placed a half mouse in my hand. Or is that a halved mouse? A mouselet? One thinks of middle English, which would of course have an exact term for the back end of a mouse. Once, while I was teaching at Hobart College, I offended a student by telling him that a “Fudd” is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a rabbit’s rectum. The student was offended because I said that Elmber Fudd’s creators knew this fact. Somehow I’d spoiled his childhood. But now I have a mouse’s ass, cold as jelly in my open palm. Thank you girl!
Planet of the Blind 