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Professor PUZZLE Queen of Hearts Flamingo Croquet - Alice in Wonderland Themed Croquet set for adults for kids. 4 Player wooden croquet set

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PREMIUM RUBBER WOOD MATERIAL】The Mallets heads are made of premium quality rubber wood, which is durable for a long time. The handle stakes are crafted from heavy-duty poplar wood, which has clear texture, smooth planed surface, sweat-proof and comfortable to touch, giving you a best experience in the croquet game. The brightly-colored balls are made of quality PE (Polymer Elastic). The whole set is very easy to assemble and play, just in a minute. Leave off that!” screamed the Queen. “You make me giddy.” And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What have you been doing here?” Though many differences persist in the three versions of Alice in Wonderland we’ve discussed this week, one of the most poignant examples lies in the croquet scene. In the book, it serves as an example of the overall theme of de-familiarization. Alice is supposed to recognize the game, but it features very different materials and customs than the above-ground version. Carroll notes that Alice “had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life: it was all ridges and furrows: the croquet balls were live hedgehogs and the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches” (Carroll 73). Alice has a difficult time breaking from her preconceived notions and adjusting to life in Wonderland, for example this different way of croquet. In this game, players fight and do not take turns, which would have been very different from the upper-class version that Alice is probably accustomed to. Furthermore, the presence of this absurd game of croquet echoes Carroll’s sentiment that everything in Wonderland is absurd and feels like some sort of cruel game. The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at his time of life.

The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round. (It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.) She’s in prison,” the Queen said to the executioner: “fetch her here.” And the executioner went off like an arrow. Get up!” said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else. First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS. Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions; “and besides, what would be the use of a procession,” thought she, “if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?” So she stood still where she was, and waited.

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Hush! Hush!” said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered “She’s under sentence of execution.” The Queen - she wants red roses and I put white roses in by mistake. If the Queen finds them, she'll cut my head off! Oh no! Here comes the Queen!

Is it my turn? Oh good shot! Have another go... oh do stand still! Very nicely played, it's your turn again, very good, etc... I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!” the legal process where people look at evidence to decide if someone is guilty or innocent of a crime Yes, it is his business!” said Five, “and I’ll tell him—it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.”

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The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head! Off—” The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. “Off with his head!” she said, without even looking round. Alice had no choice but to follow the Queen. We'll leave her there for now. Next time. I'll tell you all about the Knave of Hearts, the stolen jam tarts and what happened when Alice met the Hatter and The White Rabbit again. Goodbye. Vocabulary

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