A good many children may play at this game. One player is called the
buyer, the rest form a line in front of him and take hold of each
other. The first in this line is called the baker, the last the French
roll. Those between are supposed to be the oven. When they are all in
place the buyer says to the baker, "Give me my French roll." The baker
replies, "It is at the back of the oven." The buyer goes to fetch it,
when the French roll begins running from the back of the oven, and
comes up to the baker, calling all the while, "Who runs? Who runs?"
The buyer may run after him, but if the French roll gets first to the
top of the line, he becomes baker, and the last in the line is French
roll. If, however, the buyer catches the French roll, the French roll
becomes buyer, and the buyer takes the place of the baker.
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