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In due time I found my ghost, or ghosts rather, for there were two of them. In the parlour there were two card-tables, and every other convenience for any who preferred sedentary amusements. I lived in "converted" ones-old houses officiating as dâk-bungalows-where nothing was in its proper place and there wasn't even a fowl for dinner. I lived in dâk-bungalows where the last entry in the visitors'-book was fifteen months old and where they slashed off the curry-kid's head with a sword. A severe course of dâk-bungalows has this disadvantage-it breeds infinite credulity. But yet the ordeal has to be faced, the stroke must be attempted when it comes, as it assuredly will in due course. Of course it is easy to see if a green is on a level and if on a slope, but it is by no means easy always to judge by the eye whether a green is faster or slower than its immediate predecessor.

One spiky blade of grass may make all the difference in laying a ball dead or holing it, and the eye cannot always be depended on to see such things. But I suppose such things will always be. Neville Chamberlain, a lieutenant, wanted to modify certain things about the "black pool." The game involves one black ball and 15 red ones. The process involves using the cue ball to pocket the red and coloured balls. Tennis, for instance, when you first fail to win a short chase, or your opponent keeps on serving nicks; billiards, when your ball is always under a cushion, or the balls dead safe time after time; cricket, when an umpire has given you out by a mistake of judgment-all these are trials, and they form part of the discipline of life. But the Katmals were the smallest part of the horror. Principal varieties of balkline billiards are 18.1 and 18.2-requiring lines 18 inches from the cushions and allowing one and two shots, respectively, within a balk-and 14.1 and 14.2, with 14-in lines and the same restrictions on shots. Kadir Baksh did not say that he had taken from each gang two annas for rent in advance, and then, beyond my ear-shot, had beaten them with the big green umbrella whose use I could never before divine.

He either cuts it too fine and is very short in the attempt to lay it dead, or else, frightened of the bunker that lies so dangerously near to him, he determines to get over at all risks and overruns the green by forty or fifty yards. Away she tripped, while the major remained standing where she had left him, feeling a better man than he had done since he was a young ensign and kissed his mother for the last time at the Portsmouth jetty before the great transport carried him off to India. He is on a smooth green which looks so fast that it terrifies him, while if it should slope slightly down hill he is more terrified still. Since engaging with more experienced players can offer valuable learning opportunities. Joining a billiards community can be an enriching experience, offering you a chance to make new friends and challenge your skills in friendly competitions. The bad-tempered golfer is a nuisance and anxiety to himself and his friends; indeed I have seen it come to such a pass that, though a man may have friends anywhere else, they are not to be found on the links.

However, you have to announce it before shooting. The day was breaking, however, before the last guests had muffled themselves up and the last hansom dashed away from the door. The guests were as varied as the wines, though hardly as select. I never inhabited the same house for three nights running, and grew to be learned in the breed. In billiards you play for a whole evening or for a whole match on the same table; that is a very small object as compared with a putting-green, and if you have any pretensions to play at all, you ought to gauge the pace of a billiard-table after an hour's play. We do not pretend to have exhausted the subject, but we have made a start. We are convinced that so far we have been taking much too narrow a view. Finally there is the case of billiards, not a game that is very closely allied to cricket, but one from which much may be learned. In the game of billiards, there are only three balls used. Therefore focus on controlled strokes to pocket balls consistently. The lieutenant thought that he should add other coloured balls.

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