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...Brazil was full of wild animals, brought his four hunting dogs on the boat to Rio. "Granddad was smart to do so," pipes up Rancher Sydney Mills, 70, wearing a straw sombrero, braided string tie and cowboy boots. "The dogs would often chase and tree pumas that raided the backyard chicken coop, and Granddad would down them with his shotgun. He killed over a dozen...
...think people first join for the novelty of it. Everybody remembers childhood experiences of playing croquet in the backyard, but the professional game is a lot more intricate," he said...
American rules, Ms. Kayden explained, are akin to the rules of backyard croquet. When one ball is hit by another, it is "dead" and can't be hit again until the attacker goes through a wicket. Under international rules, balls are always open to attack...
...object of the game is to shepherd two balls twice around a wicketed turf. Rather than hit opponents' balls into the woods, as in backyard croquet, players hit them to get an extra turn...
...slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged in a dogleg in the shaft, 22 ft. beneath the surface...