Chairs and tables are pushed aside and the players are lined up for a
relay race in two, three or four even lines, depending upon the size of
the crowd.
Draw on the floor two chalk circles for each relay line, one directly
in front of each leader and another several yards beyond, at the
farther end of the room. Place one peanut in each circle. At a given
signal each leader picks up, with a table knife, the peanut from the
circle directly in front of him and runs with it to the circle at the
other end of the room. He must then pick up the peanut from that circle
and carry it back to the first circle. Then he touches off the next
player in his line, who tries to do the same stunt, that is, exchange
the peanuts from one circle to the other circle. The winning line is
the one which accomplishes this feat most quickly. Each member of it
gets three peanuts as a reward; the line which finishes second gets two
peanuts each.