← and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, 🔊
← An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.’ 🔊
← An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.’ 🔊
← ‘I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,’ and she hurried out of the room. 🔊
← ‘Call it what you like,’ said the Cat. ‘Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?’ 🔊
← ‘That’s right!’ shouted the Queen. ‘Can you play croquet?’ 🔊
← Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; 🔊
← and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!’ 🔊
← The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: 🔊
← ‘Let’s go on with the game,’ the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground. 🔊