Alice in Wonderland (43)

Alice in Wonderland (43)

It was the strangest game of croquet Alice had ever seen.
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The balls were curled-up live hedgehogs, and the mallets were live flamingos.

The soldier had to doble up and stand on their hands to make the arches.



At first it was difficult for Alice to manage her flamingo.

She had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hesgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing.



By the time Alice had her falmingo in position to tap the ball, her hedgehog had uncurled and crawled away.

Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was very difficult game indeeed.

The players all played at once without waiting for their turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs.

THe Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting  " Off with his head ! " or " Off with her head ! " every few minutes.

She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air.

It puzzled her very much at first , but after watching it for a while, she made it out to be a grin.

Alice said to herself, " It's the Cheshire Cat. Now I shall have somebody to talk to. "

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