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This is the best game, as from 8 to 40 players can be kept busy and interested. Divide the class into two squads, which are placed facing each other on two parallel lines (chalk) as far apart as the size of the room will admit. The greater the distance, the better, but the lines should be at least six feet from the wall. If the teams are large or contain an odd number of men, put one or two more men at the further end than at the starting point. Figure 3 represents one team of nine men. Another similar team makes competition. No. 1 has a bag and at the signal runs, tossing the bag to No. 9. The bag passes through the hands of each man to No. 5, who makes a running toss to No. 4, and the second round will begin with No. 2



running down. With every succeeding round each man moves one place in the direction of the arrows. After the fifth round, No. 1 will be where No. 5 was at first. No. 1 will then run up with the bag and finally, after nine rounds, he will be back in his original position, and when the bag reaches him here, he holds it up in token of a finish. The team accomplishing this first wins. It will aid both spectators and judges if No. 1 ties a handkerchief about his arm. After the game is learned, or if the teams are large enough, put two bags in circulation thus: Give Nos. 1 and 2 each a bag (see Fig. 3). The first bag starts as before and the instant it starts up in the hands of No. 5 (not