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76 as rapidly as possible. Work for speed. As skill increases add one bag and another until the number of bags approximates the number of men in circle. There is more work in this than would appear.

(Six men and upward.)

Divide class in two teams. Place half of each team at one end of the floor (on a line) and half at the other end. The bag is carried across the room once by each member of the team and delivered to the man at the opposite side. The last man carries it over the opposite line. The team finishing first wins. A man should not cross his line till the bag reaches him.

(10 to 30 players.)

Form two teams of e.g. eight men as in figure, the end man standing a little to one side. No. 1 has a bag and at the signal runs toward No. 8, throwing it as he runs. No. 2 steps into No. 1's place. The bag passes from hand to hand, from 8 to 2 the whole line moves up one place and No. 3 runs down, etc.



After No. 8, in his turn, has run down with the bag, every man will have run and all will be in original position, and when No. 1 receives the bag again, that game is done. The team which first gets the bag around to No. 1 in his own position wins. Until the game is well learned, the end men should always be behind their line when the bag is received. The bag should be held up at arm's length as a signal that the game is done.