-LRB- Dinah was the cat . -RRB- `` I hope they 'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time ! Oh , dear Dinah , I wish I had you here ! 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 , my dear . But do cats eat bats , I wonder ? '' And here Alice began to get rather sleepy , and kept 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 , as she could n't answer either question , it did n'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 was saying to her very earnestly , `` Now , Dinah , my dear , tell me the truth . Did you ever eat a bat ? '' when suddenly , bump ! bump ! down she came upon a heap of sticks and shavings , and the fall was over . Alice was not a bit hurt , and jumped on to her feet directly : she looked up , but it was all dark overhead ; before her was another long passage , and the white rabbit was still in sight , hurrying down it . There was not a moment to be lost : away went Alice like the wind , and just heard it say , as it turned a corner , `` my ears and whiskers , how late it 's getting ! '' She turned the corner after it , and instantly found herself in a long , low hall , lit up by a row of lamps which hung from the roof . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- There were doors all round the hall , but they were all locked , and when Alice had been all round it , and tried them all , she walked sadly down the middle , wondering how she was ever to get out again : suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table , all made of solid glass ; there was nothing lying upon it , but a tiny golden key , and Alice 's first idea was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall , but alas ! either the locks were too large , or the key too small , but at any rate it would open none of them . However , on the second time round , she came to a low curtain , behind which was a door about eighteen inches high : she tried the little key in the keyhole , and it fitted !
XXXXX opened the door , and looked down a small passage , not larger than a rat-hole , into the loveliest garden you ever saw .
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