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 158 the proper use of the former is half the victory in dodging. Without activity of limb your play is stiff and incomplete. Some men show great invention in play, and particularly in the art of managing their extremities in dodging. I suppose the lady who sent the dedicatory poem to a club some years ago, referred to these contortions of limb in dodging, when she said,

though she afterwards, with artless innocence of the shape of unbreeched shanks, says,

Frisking the ball forms an important auxiliary of dodging. Indeed, there is no part of Lacrosse which can be ignored by any man ambitious of being a crack player: everything is affiliated in interest, and during the use of any part, all others are as satellites—always at hand as accessories. Dodging, without a knowledge of checking, generally comes to grief. It is a good rule to make it subservient