Potato Pairs

Pails are placed in a row. One pail is required per pair of competitors, who, starting from a line about 30 yards away, run forward, hand in hand, until they reach a line 3 yards in front of the pails.

On this line, and opposite each pail, six potatoes are placed. Each player has to throw his three potatoes into his own pail. If he misses, he must get the potato back again to the 3 yards line. If one player of the pair gets his three potatoes into the pail he may assist his partner by throwing back the potatoes which miss. The two players who arrive first back at the starting point, hand in hand, are the winners.

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