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OF TEARS. 19 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 _ yester day things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when | 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 1? Ah, thats 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. “T’m sure I’m not Ada,” she said, “ for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesnt 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 J’m I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is! Ill try if I know all the things | used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve,
