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original form it is for one group only. The first player in a group
represents a "lame chicken," and hops on one foot over each bag until
the end of the line of bags has been reached. The last bag is then
kicked away by the "lame" (lifted) foot, after which it must be picked
up and carried back over the same route to the first end of the line,
when the same player hops back on the opposite foot, kicks away a
second bag, picks it up and returns, and so on until he fails. Only
one foot may touch the ground at a time, and may touch it but once in
each space between the bags. No bag may be touched except the one at
the end of the line, which is afterward picked up, and this must be
secured without putting the lame foot upon the ground.

When the "chicken" infringes any of these rules, he must at once give
place to another. The winner is the player who has at the end of the
game the greatest number of bags.

This is a Chinese game, taken by kind permission of the author
from Miss Adele Fielde's _A Corner of Cathay_. The Chinese
children play it with their shoes in place of the bean bag or
block of wood.

CHINESE WALL

_10 to 60 or more players._

_Playground; gymnasium._

The Chinese wall is marked off by two parallel lines straight across
the center of the playground, leaving a space between them of about
ten feet in width, which represents the wall. On each side of the
wall, at a distance of from fifteen to thirty feet, a parallel line is
drawn across the ground. This marks the safety point or home goal for
the besiegers.

One player is chosen to defend the wall, and takes his place upon it.
All of the other players stand in one of the home goals. The defender
calls "Start!" when all of the players must cross the wall to the goal
beyond, the defender trying to tag as many as he can as they cross;
but he may not overstep the boundaries of the wall himself. All so
tagged join the defender in trying to secure the rest of the players
during future sorties. The game ends when all have been caught, the
last player taken being defender for the next game.

[Illustration diagram: CHINESE WALL]

This is a capital game for both children and older players, as
it affords opportunity for some very brisk running and dodging,
especially if the playground be wide. It differs from Hill Dill
and several other games of the sort in that there is a more
limited space in which the