` 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 ! ' -LRB- Dinah was the cat . -RRB- ' 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 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 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 . Alice was not a bit hurt , and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment : 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 XXXXX the wind , and was just in time to hear it say , as it turned a corner , ` Oh my ears and whiskers , how late it 's getting ! '
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