I wonder what'll become of MY name when I go
in? I shouldn't like to lose it at all -- because they'd have to
give me another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one.
But then the fun would be, trying to find the creature that had got
my old name! That's just like the advertisements, you know, when
people lose dogs -- "ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF `DASH:' HAD ON A BRASS
COLLAR" -- just fancy calling everything you met "Alice," till one of
them answered! Only they wouldn't answer at all, if they were wise.'
She was rambling on in this way when she reached the wood: it
looked very cool and shady. `Well, at any rate it's a great
comfort,' she said as she stepped under the trees, `after being so
hot, to get into the -- into WHAT?' she went on, rather surprised at
not being able to think of the word. `I mean to get under the --
under the -- under THIS, you know!' putting her hand on the trunk of
the tree. `What DOES it call itself, I wonder? I do believe it's
got no name -- why, to be sure it hasn't!'
She stood silent for a minute, thinking: then she suddenly began
again. `Then it really HAS happened, after all! And how, who am I?
I WILL remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being
determined didn't help much, and all she could say, after a great
deal of puzzling, was,`L, I KNOW it begins with L!'
Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its
large gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened.
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