1 For a single handed game the court should be from 70 to 80 feet long by about 25 to 30 feet wide. For a double-handed game, the same length but about 36 feet wide. The court is then divided across its centre by a piece of netting stretched to two posts, the net to be 3 feet 6 inches high at the posts and about 3 feet in the centre. At the ends of the court, in a line with the net are base lines the extremeties of which are connected by the side lines. The half-court line is half way between the side lines and parallel with them. The service lines are 21 feet from the netting and are parallel with it. 2 The balls should weigh 2 ounces, and in size about 2j inches in diameter. • 3 The players stand on opposite sides of the netting. The player who first delivers the ball is called the server, the other one the striker out. 4 At the finish of each game the striker out becomes server, and the server striker out. 5 The server stands with his foot be- yond the base line, and delivers the service from the right and left courts alternately. 6 The balls served must, without touching the netting, drop within the court nearest to the netting, diagonally opposite to that from which the striker serves it. 7 If tile service be delivered from the wrong court it is a fault. It is a fault if the server does not stand in the man- ner as stated above, or if the ball served drop in the net or beyond the service line, or if it drop out of court, or go into the wrong court. 8 A fault must not be played back to to the server. 9 The striker-out is not allowed to volley the service. 10 The returned ball must be kept in play either by volleying it, or striking it back after die first bounce. A ball that bounces twice is out of play. LAX 2 34 LKM 11 In serving should the ball touch1' the netting, and go over into the proper court it counts to neither player. 12 The server scores if the striker-out volley the service, or fail to return the service in such way that the ball would fall within the opponents court. 13 Two consecutive faults count a stroke against the server. 14 Should the ball touch either player (when in play) it scores a stroke for his opponent. 15 The first stroke won by either player, scores 15 ; the second won by the same raises it up to 30, his third stroke 40, and his fourth counts game. Should both players have scored 40, it Is called duct, and the next stroke gain- ed by either is called advantage, and if he should gain the following stroke he scores the game. 16 The first player that scores six games wins the set. LAX in the Bowels, with Pain. — Laudanum, 24 drops ; spirituous cin- namon water, half a gill ; if it cannot be got, use French brandy. Take a table- spoonful at a time. — 5->ee Bowel Com- plaint. Page 72. LAXATIVE POWDER for Horses. — Crocus of antimony, finely levigated, nitre, cream of tartar, and flour of sulphur of each 4 ozs. Powder and mix well together. A table-spoon- ful of this mixture may be given every night and morning a few times, in a mash of scalded bran, or a feed of com moistened with water. This powder is good for horses kept on dry meat ; and for stallions in the spring, as they keep the body cool and open, and cause them to cast their coat, and make their skin as bright as silk.

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1 For a single handed game the court should be from 70 to 80 feet long by about 25 to 30 feet wide. For a double-handed game, the same length but about 36 feet wide. The court is then divided across its centre by a piece of netting stretched to two posts, the net to be 3 feet 6 inches high at the posts and about 3 feet in the centre. At the ends of the court, in a line with the net are base lines the extremeties of which are connected by the side lines. The half-court line is half way between the side lines and parallel with them. The service lines are 21 feet from the netting and are parallel with it. 2 The balls should weigh 2 ounces, and in size about 2j inches in diameter. • 3 The players stand on opposite sides of the netting. The player who first delivers the ball is called the server, the other one the striker out. 4 At the finish of each game the striker out becomes server, and the server striker out. 5 The server stands with his foot beyond the base line, and delivers the service from the right and left courts alternately. 6 The balls served must, without touching the netting, drop within the court nearest to the netting, diagonally opposite to that from which the striker serves it. 7 If tile service be delivered from the wrong court it is a fault. It is a fault if the server does not stand in the manner as stated above, or if the ball served drop in the net or beyond the service line, or if it drop out of court, or go into the wrong court. 8 A fault must not be played back to to the server. 9 The striker-out is not allowed to volley the service. 10 The returned ball must be kept in play either by volleying it, or striking it back after die first bounce. A ball that bounces twice is out of play. LAX 2 34 LKM 11 In serving should the balltouch the netting, and go over into the proper court it counts to neither player. 12 The server scores if the striker-out volley the service, or fail to return the service in such way that the ball would fall within the opponents court. 13 Two consecutive faults count a stroke against the server. 14 Should the ball touch either player (when in play) it scores a stroke for his opponent. 15 The first stroke won by either player, scores 15 ; the second won by the same raises it up to 30, his third stroke 40, and his fourth counts game. Should both players have scored 40, it Is called deuce, and the next stroke gained by either is called advantage, and if he should gain the following stroke he scores the game. 16 The first player that scores six games wins the set. LAX in the Bowels, with Pain. — Laudanum, 24 drops ; spirituous cinnamon water, half a gill ; if it cannot be got, use French brandy. Take a tablespoonful at a time. — 5->ee Bowel Complaint. Page 72. LAXATIVE POWDER for Horses. — Crocus of antimony, finely levigated, nitre, cream of tartar, and flour of sulphur of each 4 ozs. Powder and mix well together. A table-spoonful of this mixture may be given every night and morning a few times, in a mash of scalded bran, or a feed of com moistened with water. This powder is good for horses kept on dry meat ; and for stallions in the spring, as they keep the body cool and open, and cause them to cast their coat, and make their skin as bright as silk.

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