Dormouse

Right.

And as Klaus Reinhardt points out, reading through the details of the research seems to indicate that there was another research program, a classified project code-named Dormouse, or can you give it a shot in German?

No.

Uh, how about Siebenschlaefer or Schlaefer? 'Cause it's got the umlaut over the A, so that makes it an E sound.

In the days of the great door-mouse, answered Iagu.

In the days long ago where there were many more animals than men on the earth, and the biggest of all the beasts was the Dormouse.

Then something strange happened, something that never happened before or since.

Shall I tell you about it? Oh, please do, begged Morning Glory.

"'The story I am going to tell you,' began Igu, "'is not so much a story about the Dormouse "'as it is a story about a little boy and his sister.

"'Yet had it not been for the Dormouse "'I would not be here to tell about it "'and you would not be here to listen.' To begin with, you must understand that the world in those days was a different sort of place from what it is now.

Oh, yes, a different sort of place.

People did not eat the flesh of animals.

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A Mad Tea-Party There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head.

"Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse," thought Alice; "only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind." The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it.

"No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming.

"There's plenty of room," said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large armchair at the end of the table.

The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.

"I don't quite understand you," she said as politely as she could.

"The Dormouse is asleep again," said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.

They summoned a council to debate upon the matter, and an old dormouse, suspecting where the trouble lay, proposed that someone should be appointed to go and cut the cord.

This was a bold thing to undertake, as the rays of the sun could not fail to burn whoever would venture so near to them.

At last the venerable Dormouse himself undertook it, for the very good reason that no one else would.

But all were glad to accept his offer, so he hastened to the spot where the sun lay ensnared.

Now at this time the Dormouse was the largest animal in the world.

When he stood up he looked like a mountain, and when he walked the earth trembled.

His courage was great in proportion, but as he came nearer and nearer to the sun, his back began to smoke and burn with the heat, and soon the whole top of his huge bulk was turned to enormous heaps of ashes.

He succeeded, however, in cutting the cord with his teeth, and the sun, free as round and beautiful as ever, rolled up again into the wide blue sky.

In the days of the great door-mouse, answered Iagu.

In the days long ago where there were many more animals than men on the earth, And the biggest of all the beasts was the Dormouse.

Then something strange happened, something that never happened before or since.

Shall I tell you about it? Oh, please do, begged Morning Glory.

"'The story I am going to tell you,' began Igu, "'is not so much a story about the Dormouse "'as it is a story about a little boy and his sister.

"'Yet had it not been for the Dormouse, "'I would not be here to tell about it, "'and you would not be here to listen.' to begin with you must understand that the world in those days was a different sort of place from what it is now oh yes a different sort of place people did not eat the flesh of animals they lived on berries and roots and wild vegetables The Great Spirit, who made all things on land and in the sky and water, had not yet given men Mondamin, the Indian corn.

There was no fire to give them heat or to cook with.

In all the world there was just one small fire, watched by two old witches who never let anybody come near it.

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it.

A Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head.

"'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice.

"'Only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.' The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it.

"'No room, no room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming.

"'At least—at least I mean what I say.

That's the same thing, you know.' "'Not the same thing a bit,' said the Hatter.

"'You might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see.' "'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, "'that I like what I get is the same thing as I get what I like.' "'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "'that I breathe when I sleep is the same thing as I sleep when I breathe.' "'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.