Croquet players must wear white clothing during play.

An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.'

An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.'

'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play croquet?'

'I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room.

Yes, that's right, that's right. And you spent the rest of the summer walking around like a croquet hoop.

'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.

Chapter Vill. The Queen's Croquet Ground A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.

Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life it was all ridges and furrows 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.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.