'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. 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'.
Taking a break at the Essendon Croquet Club in Brewster Street.
I don't reckon it is a flamingo!!!! I reckon it is some other type of bird, painted to pretend to be a flamingo!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't look like a flamingo, and I don't think they have webbed feet like that.
Or is it a new, previously undescribed, Moonee Ponds Flamingo. Previously unknown to Science????
Hang on - there are ruddy well TWO of them! One with a head up, one with it down.
ReplyDeleteDO NOT LET THEM BREED!
Of course the are flamingos. TThey are at the Croquet Club..... Derr!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't care if they is at the Croakey Club. Their BEAKS is wrong!!!
ReplyDeleteWarning! Warning! Warning!
Flamingo imposters sighted. (Probably a Dame and a Knight in Disguise!) (There were Dames in Alice, weren't there?)