-- and she tried to curtsey as she spoke -LRB- fancy curtseying as you 're falling through the air ! do you think you could manage it ? -RRB- `` 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 will miss me very much tonight , I should think ! '' -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 .
XXXXX 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 .
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