PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER II THE GROUND AND CROQUETERIE

CHAPTER III MANNER OF PLAYING THE GAME

CHAPTER IV THE RULES

CHAPTER V HINTS TO BEGINNERS

CROQUET

AS PLAYED BY

THE NEWPORT CROQUET CLUB

BY

ONE OF THE MEMBERS.

Sic Indus animo debet aliquando dari
Ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi.

Phoed., Lib. iii, Fab. 4.

NEW YORK:

SHELDON & COMPANY,

498 & 500 BROADWAY.

1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
SHELDON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.