AN OUTDOOR GAME.
A long straight line is chalked on the grass, and the party of players is divided into two equal numbers, or sides. Each side then goes into its own “country,” the line stretching between them. Every player must lay down on the grass, a few yards inside his line, a handkerchief, a cap, or a scarf. These are the flags. At a given signal one side rushes across the line to try to capture the enemy’s flags. vi r lhose who succeed must he allowed to return to their country, but any caught before securing a flag are prisoners. It is then the other side’s turn to cross the line, and their prisoners, if any, must help to capture the lost flags and those belonging to the enemy. No player must take more than one flag at each attack, and the side that is first to lose all its flags is defeated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 May 1925, Page 16
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155AN OUTDOOR GAME. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 May 1925, Page 16
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