← the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches. 🔊
← but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog 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: 🔊
← and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: 🔊
← besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, 🔊
← The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; 🔊
← and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!’ 🔊
← So she went in search of her hedgehog. 🔊
← 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: 🔊
← 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: 🔊
← By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: 🔊