mouse's tale ends when he notices that alice has become distracted by a knot in his tail. the queen's croquet game in chapters viii and ix, alice, having successfully made her way into ...

along their journey emma trades insults with the pipe-smoking caterpillar and the grinning cheshire cat, disrupts the queen of heart's croquet match, stirs the mad hatter's tea ...

an invitation from the queen to play croquet." the frog-footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, "from