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Show I THE POTATO RACE. A game requiring no effort of the mind and Invariably laughter provok Ing Is "tho potato raco." Placo in two parallel rows and about two feet apuri tlVo largo and Irregular potatoes ant at tho end an empty bowl. Tho contestant must pick up each potato on a teaspoon, carry It to tho bowl and drop It In. Tho potato must not bo touched by hand or foot and If dropped must 'be picked up on the spoon again. Wntct attitudes and .faces and exercise of will. for. oh.1bow that loft hand will waut to hblp! ISvon tho most dlgnll fled must unbend in his genial strugi vr1o. f jSfclsf lcecorti Is kept st thpso flrstWcod' Ing In getting all the potatoes Into tbi bow), and these again race against each other until tbo champion rovenln himself or herself. This should- ho played if possiblo on an unenrpeted floor. I THE FEATHER. f Would you like to play a gamo with a feather? This is tho way: Tho players play-ers sit down on tho floor or on footstools foot-stools or cushions In a circle, holding the edges of a sheet with both hands Just under their chins. A small feather feath-er is then blown into tho nlr by ono of tbo party, and it has to bp kept n motion mo-tion by one or tho other of the people who aro sitting nround .the sheet. One player Is outside apd hovers around tho circle trying to got tho feather, which Is blown nwny by one or the other as soon as over his baud Is near It, When the player catches tho feather feath-er bo. 1b allowod to Join the circle round' the sheet, and tbo person through whom he caught It takes bis nlacc. |