ot a booby, or running his next bridge. Suppose he chooses to play
for the second bridge, and, having run it, plays at the other ball
already in position for the third bridge. If he succeeds in hitting it,
he is said to have roqueted it, and having thus made a point, may play
again and attempt the third bridge. But he has still another privilege;
he may take his ball up, place it by the side of the other ball, and
croquet it; after which he proceeds to play his ball from the position
in which he placed it, having retained it there by his foot during the
croquet. He will probably be in position for the third bridge. If he
runs it his tour still continues, and he may play for the next bridge,
or roquet the other ball again, which he may previously have croqueted,
into the proper position. His tour continues till he fails to make a
point, when the next player on the other side begins. After running the
first bridge, he acquires, of course, the right of roqueting the other
two balls. If he roquets an enemy's ball, he croquets it, if he wishes,
into a disadvantageous position. If he roquets a friend, he croquets his
ball into better position, or perhaps through its proper bridge. This
will constitute a step on the grand round for the friend's ball, and
will advance it as much as if it were driven through the bridge by the
mallet of its proper player. After roqueting a ball, however, a player
cannot roquet the same ball again until his own ball has made a step on
the grand round. He may drive his own ball against it, and perhaps
displace it by the concussion; but the hit does not constitute a roquet,
does not entitle to croquet, or to continuance of tour. After making a
step on the grand round, however, all his privileges are revived. After
all the players have had their tours in the order of the colors on the
stake, the first player takes his second tour, and so on. At the
beginning of each new tour the grand round is taken up again, and the
ball may make a point by making the "proper step on the round"--that is,
the one next in order to that last made--whether made by a stroke of the
mallet, by "concussion," or by croquet. Or it may make a point by
roqueting any of the other balls. In the last case it may play again,
either from the spot to which it has rolled or from the side of the
roqueted ball; or it may croquet it and then play, attempting the proper
step on the round, or roqueting another ball. If it has roqueted all the