A few years ago there was a Mouse and his name was Maus. He had never had cheese in his whole mouse life. He had heard that the favourate food of mice was cheese but he himself had not had one single nibble of any cheese whatsoever.

One day, while eating his museli breakfast he read about the moon being made of cheese. He knew the moon looked small in the sky, but that it was probably very big. If he could get to the moon, he would have enough cheese for a lifetime. But how could he get to the moon?

He thought about getting a trampoline but..........nooo! What about a realy long ladder...........to short! "I have got a idea!", he shouted. "I will get on board a rocket and fly to the moon". So Maus made his way to Merritt Island where he saw a huge rocket ready for take-off. Maus being a mouse, it was very easy to get past the security and, though it was a long way up, climb up the gantry to the top of the rocket. He got inside and made himself comfortable.

A short while later, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, ingition, 3, 2, 1 TAKE OFF!!!!! Maus was crushed to the floor flat as a Pancake.

This is how the rocket looked like with Maus in it:

He saw the really cheesey moon geting closer and closer and suddenly...

whoosh! - it went past, and now the moon was getting smaller and smaller again. "Where am I going?" he thought. Then he looked out the other window and he saw God waving. Then he could see a little red planet getting bigger and bigger. Bigger and bigger. Mars! Oh no!

5 minutes later they landed on Mars. Maus jumped out off the rocket and because he was so hungry he started to eat the first thing he saw. The first thing he saw was a Mars, so he ate it. There is a reason that Mars is red, and Maus found out why. Suddenly he spat the lump of Mars out and said "yuck! lentils!. I've travel all this way for cheese and I get lentils instead". he was a very dissapointed mouse. So he sat there by him self geting hungrier and hungrier. After a while he noticed that he has to eat the lenitils if he wants to survive, and actually lentils are very good for mice, so he was very healthy.

But...there is one big problem with lentils, and it is that they make you very gassy. And maus had been eating lot of lentils so he was very very gassy. Maus had always been a very polite Mouse, even though he was on his own on Mars he tried to hold it for days and days and days...

But then suddenly all that gas came out at once. This is when Maus found out that there is not much gravity on Mars.

And this is what happened happened:

So Maus flew in to space heading for earth. He went "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" At least he thought he screamed "ahhhhhhh!", but in space you can not make a sound. But before he could think about his death, he realized how lucky he was because the green and blue planet was coming closer and closer. As the Earth got closer and closer he noticed that he was not flying anymore. He was falling. Once again he screamed "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Falling, and falling, and falling. This time he was sure he was going to die. The buildings got closer. The people got bigger. He could even see the poor woman that he was going to land on. The just before he landed on the poor lady, she open her umbrella up. Bounce! Maus bounced up into the air and landed in big soft heap of dog poo. Maus normaly doesn't like dog pooh very much but this time it saved his live. This doesn't explain why Maus got to be called Mucki Maus, that happens in the next story...