Алиса в Стране чудес / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

'I'm sure I am going to the centre of the earth,' Alice said aloud. 'It is four thousand miles down, I think. But maybe I am falling right through the earth! How funny! The people there walk with their heads downward! I shall ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?'

Down, down, down. Nothing to do. Alice soon began to talk again. 'Dinah will miss me very much tonight, I think!' (Dinah was the cat.) 'I hope they'll give her milk. Dinah my dear! Where are you? Why not with me down here? There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you can catch a bat. But do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? Dinah, tell me the truth: do you eat bats?'

Suddenly, thump! thump! she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves. Alice jumped up on to her feet very fast: she looked up, but it was dark there. Before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit went down it. Alice went like the wind. The Rabbit was saying, 'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late, how late!' And he disappeared.