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How to play croquêt : a new pocket manual of complete instructions for American players, illustrated with engravings and diagrams, together with all the rules of the game, hints on parlor croquêt, and a glossary of terms. (1865)

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nyball that has also passed through the samearch. It is donejts follows: when a ball hashit another at a distance, —that is, roquetted it, — the player lays his own ball againstthe other so that it touches it. He thenplaces his foot on his own ball, and strikes hisball with the mallet. The effect… … PLACING} THE BALL FOB A CKOQUBT. A friend can by croquetting send a partnerthrough the arch he wishes to pass, or els©drive an enemy who has obtained a goodposition, and who feels certain of goingthrough an arch at his next turn, exactly inthe opposite direction to # that in which hewishes to…

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