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 to-night, 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?' And here
Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way,
'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see,
as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand
in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:
did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks
and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
This original is available for sale.
Price: $30.00 + $3.00 Shipping
Purchase Using PayPal:
|
|
