rest against it, and the ball is propelled without
the mallet being drawn back. ‘

7, If a ball be struck otherwise than with the
face of the mallet, if it be pushed, or if in striking
at his own ball a player hits another, it is a foul
stroke, and the player loses his turn; and any balls
disturbed shall be replaced or suffered to remain, at
the option of the opposite side.

8. A player may play in any attitude, and use
his mallet with. his hands in any way he pleases,
provided he strikes the ball with the face of the
mallet.

9. If, in making a stroke, a ball is driven be-
vond the limits of the Croquet-ground, it may be
taken up and placed at the point where it crossed
the boundary line.

10. When the ball is by accident driven from
its resting place, it is to be returned to the spot
from which it was started.

11. It is allowable for a player to rest the head
of his hallet on the ground at a distance from the
ball, and strike it by sharply advancing the mallet
from its resting place.

12. Instead of aiming at his arch, or at another
ball, a player may strike his ball towards any part
of the ground he pleases.

18. The balls are to pass through the course in
the regular order of the arches. If a ball passes
through an arch other than the arch next in its turn,
or from the wrong side, the passing through is of
~ no account.

14. If a ball is struck through its right arch by
a blow from another ball, or is roqueted or cro-
queted through, it is considered to have gone
through its arch.

15. Any player missing the first arch takes his

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