Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Chapters 8-10: Alice in the Garden

Alice first encounters a curious spectacle: some playing cards are painting some white roses red. They are doing so, she learns, because red roses were supposed to have been planted there, and if the Queen of Hearts were to discover the mistake, they would have their heads cut off. Just then the Queen and King of Hearts come by, and the Queen does indeed sentence them to be beheaded, though Alice hides them, so that the sentence is never carried out.

The Queen then invites Alice to play croquet. The match is played with flamingos for mallets and hedgehogs for balls, and is...

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