sentence: A man standing on a backyard patio deck in front of a man made fish pond stands with another man talking and playing croquet with mallets, croquet balls and a hockey stick. sentence:   The man is alone at first, holding a mallet, standing, and talking into a cell phone, until the other man arrives in the backyard and hands him a croquet ball. sentence:   The two men begin to play croquet in the backyard, hitting the ball with the mallet until one man goes and gets a hockey stick, the men play until one of them hits the ball into the man made fish pool. sentence:   The men continue to play until another ball is hit into the fish pool at which point one man gets on his knees to fish out all of the balls lost in the fish pool.