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.
Le terrain n’était que billons et sillons ; des hérissons vivants servaient de boules, et des flamants de maillets. Les soldats, courbés en deux, avaient à se tenir la tête et les pieds sur le sol pour former des arches.