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POTATO RACE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POTATO See also:RACE , a See also:running contest, where the winner is the first who collects in a See also:basket or other receptacle a number of potatoes, usually eight, placed, as a See also:rule two yards apart, along a straight See also:line, and then crosses a finish line five or ten yards farther on.

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