Presently she began again. ‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the

earth! 🔊 How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with

their heads downward! 🔊 The Antipathies, I think--’ (she was rather glad

there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the

right word) ‘--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country

is, you know. 🔊 Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?’ (and

she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy curtseying as you’re falling

through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 🔊 ‘And what an

ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to

ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’

Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began

talking again. 🔊 ‘Dinah’ll miss me very much tonight, I should think!’

(Dinah was the cat.) 🔊 ‘I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at

tea-time. 🔊 Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! 🔊 There are no

mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very

like a mouse, you know. 🔊 But do cats eat bats, I wonder?’ 🔊