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"Well!" thought Alice to herself, "after such a fall as this, I

shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll

all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't 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 I've fallen by this time?" she 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,

Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in

the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity

for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to

her, still it was good practice to say it over) "-yes, that's

about the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or

Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or

Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)