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Show Billiards at Sea. "Can you Imnglno playing billiards In a heavy galo?" said tho coptalu. "Do you wonder that our now llnors, with tholr olovators and tolophones nnd gymnnsltim, don't hnvo billiard tnblos as well? Ono ship onco had a billiard table tho Oreat Eastorn. "Tho wondorful Orent Eastorn had n billiard tnblo on u swinging dock. This dock wns supposed to counter net tho ship's motion, nnd to hcop tho tnblo stonily. Hut It failed to do so, nnd vory romarkablo wero somo ol tho shots made on tho Groat Eastern's tablo In rough weather. "Nevertheless, tho tablo wns kept for yoars, nnd wns n popular Instltu tlon aboard tho big boat Hut no othor bont boforo or slnco has ovor bothorod to Introduce billiards," |