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ed my attention, and 1 entered the house^ 

 where I saw two young men engaged in a 

 game quite new to me, called Trtico. This is 

 played with large wooden balls, twice the 

 size of a common billiard-ball, and a very 

 heavy cue. The table is of the common 

 size; it has a horseshoe-shaped piece of 

 iron, just large enough to admit a ball, 

 placed where the spot is for the red ball in 

 a common game, and in the line of the 

 baulk, a straight piece of iron, like a large 

 pin. The game is played like our four-ball 

 game, with the difference that if you strike 

 the pin after hitting the adversary's ball, you 

 score two, and if, in like manner, you send 

 either of the red balls through the half circle, 

 or drive the adversary's ball through, you 

 score three. Each party strikes alternately, 

 and does not, as in common billiards, repeat 

 the stroke every time he scores. There is, 

 however, not half the science of the usual 

 game, much depending on chance. 



