It should be done by their horses.

They knew the sort of game, for it is not the first time they have played it.

The piece of print is unrolled, and at each end tied to a horse's tail.

The owners spring to the backs of the animals, then urge them in the opposite directions till the strain comes; at the pluck the web gives way, and he who holds the longer part becomes possessor of the whole.
Others, not gamblers, out of sheer devilry and diversion, similarly attach their stuffs, and gallop over the ground with the prints trailing fifty yards behind them.

In the frenzied frolic that had seized hold of them they forgot their slain comrades, still unburied.