C.f. "The Queen's Croquet-Ground," ch. 8 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (London: Macmillan and Co., 1866), p. 121:
Alice thought she 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.