translation.en: The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
translation.pt: A principal dificuldade que Alice inicialmente encontrou foi em controlar seu flamingo: ela teve sucesso em por o corpo alinhado, suficientemente confortável, debaixo de seu braço, com as suas pernas pendentes, mas geralmente, assim que ela tinha o pescoço endireitado, e ia dar uma tacada com cabeça no ouriço, ele torcia-se em volta e olhava para o rosto dela, com uma expressão tão confusa que ela não podia evitar cair na gargalhada: e quando ela tinha colocava a cabeça para baixo, e ia recomeçar, foi muito irritante descobrir que o ouriço tinha se desenrolado e estava no ato de caminhar embora: para além disto tudo, havia sempre uma cova ou sulco no caminho para o qual ela queria enviar o ouriço, e os soldados estavam sempre a levantar-se e andar para outras partes do campo, Alice cedo chegou a conclusão que era um jogo bastante difícil de fato.