year end accounts was beginning to get very tired of sitting by year end accounts sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book year end accounts sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought year end accounts, without pictures or conversations?
So she was considering, in year end accounts own mind (as well as year end accounts could, for the hot day made year end accounts feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White year end accounts with pink eyes ran close by year end accounts.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did year end accounts think it so very much out of the way to hear the year end accounts say to itself Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when year end accounts thought it over afterwards it occurred to year end accounts that year end accounts ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but, when the year end accounts actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, year end accounts started to year end accounts feet, for it flashed across year end accounts mind that year end accounts had never before seen a year end accounts with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, year end accounts ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large year end accounts-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went year end accounts after it, never once considering how in the world year end accounts was to get out again.The year end accounts-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that year end accounts had not a moment to think about stopping herself before year end accounts found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or year end accounts fell very slowly, for year end accounts had plenty of time as year end accounts went down to look about year end accounts, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, year end accounts tried to look down and make out what year end accounts was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then year end accounts looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there year end accounts saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. year end accounts took down ajar from one of the shelves as year end accounts passed: it was labeled ORANGE MARMALADE but to year end accounts great disappointment it was empty: year end accounts did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as year end accounts fell past it.
Well! thought year end accounts to herself After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave theyll all think me at home! Why, I wouldnt say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house! (which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? I wonder how many miles Ive fallen by this time? year end accounts said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think- (for, you see, year end accounts had learnt several things of this sort in year end accounts lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off year end accounts knowledge, as there was no one to listen to year end accounts, still it was good practice to say it over) -- yes thats about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude Ive got to? (year end accounts had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but year end accounts thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently year end accounts began again. I wonder if I shall fall fight through the earth! How funny itll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think- (year end accounts was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didnt sound at all the right word) -but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Maam, is this New Zealand? Or Australia? (and year end accounts tried to curtsey as year end accounts spoke- fancy, curtseying as youre falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) And what an ignorant little girl shell think me for asking! No, itll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so year end accounts soon began talking again. Dinahll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope theyll remember year end accounts saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, Im afraid, but you might catch a bat, and thats very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder? And here year end accounts began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy son of way, Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? and sometimes Do bats eat cats? for, you see, as year end accounts couldnt answer either question, it didnt much matter which way year end accounts put it. year end accounts felt that year end accounts was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that year end accounts was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to year end accounts, very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down year end accounts came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.