Read "The Nursery "Alice"" by Lewis Carroll online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Did you ever play at Croquet? There are large wooden balls, painted with different colours, that you have to roll about; and arches of wire, that you have to send them through; and great wooden mallets, with long handles, to knock the balls about with.
Now look at the picture, and you'll see that "Alice" has just been playing a Game of Croquet.