o.

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot,
she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: "Dear,
dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on
just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me
think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I
can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same,
the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, _that's_ the great
puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she knew that
were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been
changed for any of them.

"I'm sure I'm not Ada," she said, "for her hair goes in such long
ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I
can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she
knows such a very little! Besides, _she's_ she and _I'm_ I, and--oh
dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I
used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times
six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never
get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table
doesn't signify: let's try Geography. London is the capital of
Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome--no, _that's_ all
wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I'll try
and say '_How doth the little--_'" and she crossed her hands on her
lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her
voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the
same as they used to do:

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!

"I'm sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and her
eyes filled with tears again as she went on: "I must be Mabel,
after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little
house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many
lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel,
I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down
and saying, 'Com