← and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, 🔊
← ‘I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! 🔊
← then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; 🔊
← 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?’ 🔊
← The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; 🔊
← All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ 🔊