dormouse

The tiny dormouse could not suppress his delight that spring has finally come when he got to the top of this blossom.

'Treacle, ' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.

The Dormouse was still asleep, and the Hatter and the March Hare were trying to put it into the teapot.

'They lived on treacle, ' said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.

Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep, ' he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard every word you fellows were saying . '

The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, 'It was a treacle-well. '

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

'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so. ' said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her. 'I can hardly breathe. '

This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

Don't push like that, "said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her. " I'm nearly falling off my seat.

'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in. '

'You've no right to grow here, ' said the Dormouse.

'So they were, ' said the Dormouse; 'VERY ill. '

The Hazel Dormouse , once widespread throughout the UK, is now vulnerable to regional extinction.

A dormouse sat between them, but he was fast asleep.

This dormouse is running though a meadow. In spring and summer, the meadow was full of flowers, but now it looks different. It is autumn.

The previous governor, George Pataki, had similar ideas, but he pursued them with the audacity of a dormouse.

Then the March Hare and the Hatter turned to the Dormouse. "Wake up, Dormouse! " they shouted loudly in its ears. "Tell us a story. "

Fortunately, an ongoing reintroduction plan is helping to increase the numbers of Britain's only native dormouse species.

'But what did the Dormouse say? ' one of the jury asked.

The weather is getting colder and the dormouse knows it must soon find somewhere warm to make a nest.

To provide shelter and encourage breeding, 200 dormouse nest boxes have been placed in the woodland.

But, thank to the PTES' Hazel Dormouse Biodiversity Action Plan, this species is being reintroduced to the wild.

'Sixteenth, ' added the Dormouse.

Loss of hedgerows and fragmentation of woodland habitat has nearly wiped out the Hazel Dormouse from Britain.

" Collar that dormouse, " the Queen shrieked out.

Dormouse: Watch what you're doing!

sh! ' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself. '

Less attractive is the use of dormouse fat, as used by the Elizabethans.

'Then the Dormouse shall! ' they both cried. 'Wake up, Dormouse! ' And they pinched it on both sides at once.

The Hazel Dormouse has a distinctly different way of life

Remember what the dormouse said