i do n't think they play at all fairly,' alice began, in rather a complaining tone,'and they all quarrel so dreadfully one ca n't hear oneself speak -- and they do n'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!'