ORDER OF PLAYING.
5. The balls are to be played in the order in which they are marked upon the post.
6. If any player play out of his turn, he finishes the stroke; but for the violation of the last rule he is deprived of the next turn.
[It may perhaps be suggested that a player, seeing a good opportunity for some effective stroke, would purposely play out of his turn. This we doubt; for not only would the deprivation of his next turn do him a great deal of damage, but the chances are that one of the other players would stop him before he had commenced the stroke.]
7. If a player play with a wrong ball, he has to replace the ball and lose his next turn.
[This penalty is not enforced against a player if the error be not discovered before the arrival of his second turn.]
8. If a player by a stroke of his mallet drives his ball through the next hoop in the order of his course, he is allowed to continue his stroke.
9. A player may in one stroke drive his ball through more than one hoop.
10. If a ball, in going through a hoop, strike another ball, the player can either continue his stroke at the next hoop, or else croquet the ball that is struck; but he is not allowed two turns for passing through a hoop, and then hitting a ball.