The playground and the parlour: a handbook of boys\ games, sports, and amusements (1868)
Alfred Elliott. · leaf 90
91 CROQUET. … 2.— CROQUET. For the last five years the game of Croquet has been rising in public estimation, despite the ridicule of Punch and other humorists, and in the face of the persistent opposition of old maids, old bachelors, and all the laudatores temporis acti, who object to a new sport as they would…
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