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! 🔊