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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little
+Wars", by H. G. Wells
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+Title: Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
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+Author: H. G. Wells
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+Posting Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #3690]
+Release Date: January, 2003
+First Posted: July 22, 2001
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLOOR GAMES ***
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+Produced by Alan Murray.  HTML version by Al Haines.
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+FLOOR GAMES
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+by
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+(H)erbert (G)eorge Wells
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+Contents
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+   I.  The Toys To Have
+  II.  The Game Of The Wonderful Islands
+ III.  Of The Building Of Cities
+  IV.  Funiculars, Marble Towers, Castles And War Games,
+         But Very Little Of War Games
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+Section I
+
+THE TOYS TO HAVE
+
+The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the
+home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far
+short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or cork
+carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand up upon it, and
+of a color and surface that will take and show chalk marks; the common
+green-colored cork carpet without a pattern is the best of all. It must
+be no highway to other rooms, and well lit and airy. Occasionally,
+alas! it must be scrubbed--and then a truce to Floor Games. Upon such a
+floor may be made an infinitude of imaginative games, not only keeping
+boys and girls happy for days together, but building up a framework of
+spacious and inspiring ideas in them for after life. The men of
+tomorrow will gain new strength from nursery floors. I am going to tell
+of some of these games and what is most needed to play them; I have
+tried them all and a score of others like them with my sons, and all of
+the games here illustrated have been set out by us. I am going to tell
+of them here because I think what we have done will interest other
+fathers and mothers, and perhaps be of use to them (and to uncles and
+such-like tributary sub-species of humanity) in buying presents for
+their own and other people's children.
+
+Now, the toys we play with time after time, and in a thousand
+permutations and combinations, belong to four main groups. We have (1)
+SOLDIERS, and with these I class sailors, railway porters, civilians,
+and the lower animals generally, such as I will presently describe in
+greater detail; (2) BRICKS; (3) BOARDS and PLANKS; and (4) a lot of
+CLOCKWORK RAILWAY ROLLING-STOCK AND RAILS. Also there are certain minor
+objects--tin ships, Easter eggs, and the like--of which I shall make
+incidental mention, that like the kiwi and the duck-billed platypus
+refuse to be classified.
+
+These we arrange and rearrange in various ways upon our floor, making a
+world of them. In doing so we have found out all sorts of pleasant
+facts, and also many undesirable possibilities; and very probably our
+experience will help a reader here and there to the former and save him
+from the latter. For instance, our planks and boards, and what one can
+do with them, have been a great discovery. Lots of boys and girls seem
+to be quite without planks and boards at all, and there is no regular
+trade in them. The toyshops, we found, did not keep anything of the
+kind we wanted, and our boards, which we had to get made by a
+carpenter, are the basis of half the games we play. The planks and
+boards we have are of various sizes. We began with three of two yards
+by one; they were made with cross pieces like small doors; but these we
+found unnecessarily large, and we would not get them now after our
+present experience. The best thickness, we think, is an inch for the
+larger sizes and three-quarters and a half inch for the smaller; and
+the best sizes are a yard square, thirty inches square, two feet, and
+eighteen inches square--one or two of each, and a greater number of
+smaller ones, 18 x 9, 9 x 9, and 9 x 4-1/2. With the larger ones we
+make islands and archipelagos on our floor while the floor is a sea, or
+we make a large island or a couple on the Venice pattern, or we pile
+the smaller on the larger to make hills when the floor is a level
+plain, or they roof in railway stations or serve as bridges, in such
+manner as I will presently illustrate. And these boards of ours pass
+into our next most important possession, which is our box of bricks.
+
+(But I was nearly forgetting to tell this, that all the thicker and
+larger of these boards have holes bored through them. At about every
+four inches is a hole, a little larger than an ordinary gimlet hole.
+These holes have their uses, as I will tell later, but now let me get
+on to the box of bricks.)
+
+This, again, wasn't a toy-shop acquisition. It came to us by gift from
+two generous friends, unhappily growing up and very tall at that; and
+they had it from parents who were one of several families who shared in
+the benefit of a Good Uncle. I know nothing certainly of this man
+except that he was a Radford of Plymouth. I have never learned nor
+cared to learn of his commoner occupations, but certainly he was one of
+those shining and distinguished uncles that tower up at times above the
+common levels of humanity. At times, when we consider our derived and
+undeserved share of his inheritance and count the joys it gives us, we
+have projected half in jest and half in earnest the putting together of
+a little exemplary book upon the subject of such exceptional men:
+Celebrated Uncles, it should be called; and it should stir up all who
+read it to some striving at least towards the glories of the avuncular
+crown. What this great benefactor did was to engage a deserving
+unemployed carpenter through an entire winter making big boxes of
+wooden bricks for the almost innumerable nephews and nieces with which
+an appreciative circle of brothers and sisters had blessed him. There
+are whole bricks 4-1/2 inches x 2-1/4 x 1-1/8; and there are
+quarters--called by those previous owners (who have now ascended to, we
+hope but scarcely believe, a happier life near the ceiling) "piggys."
+You note how these sizes fit into the sizes of the boards, and of each
+size--we have never counted them, but we must have hundreds. We can
+pave a dozen square yards of floor with them.
+
+How utterly we despise the silly little bricks of the toyshops! They
+are too small to make a decent home for even the poorest lead soldiers,
+even if there were hundreds of them, and there are never enough, never
+nearly enough; even if you take one at a time and lay it down and say,
+"This is a house," even then there are not enough. We see rich people,
+rich people out of motor cars, rich people beyond the dreams of
+avarice, going into toyshops and buying these skimpy, sickly,
+ridiculous pseudo-boxes of bricklets, because they do not know what to
+ask for, and the toyshops are just the merciless mercenary enemies of
+youth and happiness--so far, that is, as bricks are concerned. Their
+unfortunate under-parented offspring mess about with these gifts, and
+don't make very much of them, and put them away; and you see their
+consequences in after life in the weakly-conceived villas and silly
+suburbs that people have built all round big cities. Such poor
+under-nourished nurseries must needs fall back upon the Encyclopedia
+Britannica, and even that is becoming flexible on India paper! But our
+box of bricks almost satisfies. With our box of bricks we can scheme
+and build, all three of us, for the best part of the hour, and still
+have more bricks in the box.
+
+So much now for the bricks. I will tell later how we use cartridge
+paper and cardboard and other things to help in our and of the
+decorative make of plasticine. Of course, it goes without saying that
+we despise those foolish, expensive, made-up wooden and pasteboard
+castles that are sold in shops--playing with them is like playing with
+somebody else's dead game in a state of rigor mortis. Let me now say a
+little about toy soldiers and the world to which they belong. Toy
+soldiers used to be flat, small creatures in my own boyhood, in
+comparison with the magnificent beings one can buy to-day. There has
+been an enormous improvement in our national physique in this respect.
+Now they stand nearly two inches high and look you broadly in the face,
+and they have the movable arms and alert intelligence of scientifically
+exercised men. You get five of them mounted or nine afoot in a box for
+a small price. We three like those of British manufacture best; other
+makes are of incompatible sizes, and we have a rule that saves much
+trouble, that all red coats belong to G. P. W., and all other colored
+coats to F. R. W., all gifts, bequests, and accidents notwithstanding.
+Also we have sailors; but, since there are no red-coated sailors, blue
+counts as red.
+
+Then we have "beefeaters," (Footnote; The warders in the Tower of
+London are called "beefeaters"; the origin of the term is obscure.)
+Indians, Zulus, for whom there are special rules. We find we can buy
+lead dogs, cats, lions, tigers, horses, camels, cattle, and elephants
+of a reasonably corresponding size, and we have also several boxes of
+railway porters, and some soldiers we bought in Hesse-Darmstadt that we
+pass off on an unsuspecting home world as policemen. But we want
+civilians very badly. We found a box of German from an exaggerated
+curse of militarism, and even the grocer wears epaulettes. This might
+please Lord Roberts and Mr. Leo Maxse, but it certainly does not please
+us. I wish, indeed, that we could buy boxes of tradesmen: a blue
+butcher, a white baker with a loaf of standard bread, a merchant or so;
+boxes of servants, boxes of street traffic, smart sets, and so forth.
+We could do with a judge and lawyers, or a box of vestrymen. It is true
+that we can buy Salvation Army lasses and football players, but we are
+cold to both of these. We have, of course, boy scouts. With such boxes
+of civilians we could have much more fun than with the running,
+marching, swashbuckling soldiery that pervades us. They drive us to
+reviews; and it is only emperors, kings, and very silly small boys who
+can take an undying interest in uniforms and reviews.
+
+And lastly, of our railways, let me merely remark here that we have
+always insisted upon one uniform gauge and everything we buy fits into
+and develops our existing railway system. Nothing is more indicative of
+the wambling sort of parent and a coterie of witless, worthless uncles
+than a heap of railway toys of different gauges and natures in the
+children's playroom. And so, having told you of the material we have,
+let me now tell you of one or two games (out of the innumerable many)
+that we have played. Of course, in this I have to be a little
+artificial. Actual games of the kind I am illustrating here have been
+played by us, many and many a time, with joy and happy invention and no
+thought of publication. They have gone now, those games, into that
+vaguely luminous and iridescent into which happiness have tried out
+again points in world of memories all love-engendering must go. But we
+our best to set them and recall the good them here.
+
+
+
+Section II
+
+THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS
+
+In this game the floor is the sea. Half--rather the larger half because
+of some instinctive right of primogeniture--is assigned to the elder of
+my two sons (he is, as it were, its Olympian), and the other half goes
+to his brother. We distribute our boards about the sea in an
+archipelagic manner. We then dress our islands, objecting strongly to
+too close a scrutiny of our proceedings until we have done. Here, in
+the illustration, is such an archipelago ready for its explorers, or
+rather on the verge of exploration. There are altogether four islands,
+two to the reader's right and two to the left, and the nearer ones are
+the more northerly; it is as many as we could get into the camera. The
+northern island to the right is most advanced in civilization, and is
+chiefly temple. That temple has a flat roof, diversified by domes made
+of half Easter eggs and cardboard cones. These are surmounted by
+decorative work of a flamboyant character in plasticine, designed by G.
+P. W. An oriental population crowds the courtyard and pours out upon
+the roadway. Note the grotesque plasticine monsters who guard the
+portals, also by G. P. W., who had a free hand with the architecture of
+this remarkable specimen of eastern religiosity. They are nothing, you
+may be sure, to the gigantic idols inside, out of the reach of the
+sacrilegious camera. To the right is a tropical thatched hut. The
+thatched roof is really that nice ribbed paper that comes round
+bottles--a priceless boon to these games. All that comes into the house
+is saved for us. The owner of the hut lounges outside the door. He is a
+dismounted cavalry-corps man, and he owns one cow. His fence, I may
+note, belonged to a little wooden farm we bought in Switzerland. Its
+human inhabitants are scattered; its beasts follow a precarious living
+as wild guinea-pigs on the islands to the south.
+
+Your attention is particularly directed to the trees about and behind
+the temple, which thicken to a forest on the further island to the
+right. These trees we make of twigs taken from trees and bushes in the
+garden, and stuck into holes in our boards. Formerly we lived in a
+house with a little wood close by, and our forests were wonderful. Now
+we are restricted to our garden, and we could get nothing for this set
+out but jasmine and pear. Both have wilted a little, and are not nearly
+such spirited trees as you can make out of fir trees, for instance. It
+is for these woods chiefly that we have our planks perforated with
+little holes. No tin trees can ever be so plausible and various and
+jolly as these. With a good garden to draw upon one can make terrific
+sombre woods, and then lie down and look through them at lonely
+horsemen or wandering beasts.
+
+That further island on the right is a less settled country than the
+island of the temple. Camels, you note, run wild there; there is a sort
+of dwarf elephant, similar to the now extinct kind of which one finds
+skeletons in Malta, pigs, a red parrot, and other such creatures, of
+lead and wood. The pear-trees are fine. It is those which have
+attracted white settlers (I suppose they are), whose thatched huts are
+to be seen both upon the beach and in-land. By the huts on the beach
+lie a number of pear-tree logs; but a raid of negroid savages from the
+to the left is in the only settler is the man in a adjacent island
+progress, and clearly visible rifleman's uniform running inland for
+help. Beyond, peeping out among the trees, are the supports he seeks.
+
+These same negroid savages are as bold as they are ferocious. They
+cross arms of the sea upon their rude canoes, made simply of a strip of
+cardboard. Their own island, the one to the south-left, is a rocky
+wilderness containing caves. Their chief food is the wild-goat, but in
+pursuit of these creatures you will also sometimes find the brown bear,
+who sits--he is small but perceptible to the careful student--in the
+mouth of his cave. Here, too, you will distinguish small guinea
+pig-like creatures of wood, in happier days the inhabitants of that
+Swiss farm. Sunken rocks off this island are indicated by a white foam
+which takes the form of letters, and you will also note a whirlpool
+between the two islands to the right.
+
+Finally comes the island nearest to the reader on the left. This also
+is wild and rocky, inhabited not by negroid blacks, but by Indians,
+whose tents, made by F. R. W. out of ordinary brown paper and adorned
+with chalk totems of a rude and characteristic kind, pour forth their
+fierce and well-armed inhabitants at the intimation of an invader. The
+rocks on this island, let me remark, have great mineral wealth. Among
+them are to be found not only sheets and veins of silver paper, but
+great nuggets of metal, obtained by the melting down of hopelessly
+broken soldiers in an iron spoon. Note, too, the peculiar and romantic
+shell beach of this country. It is an island of exceptional interest to
+the geologist and scientific explorer. The Indians, you observe, have
+domesticated one leaden and one wooden cow.
+
+This is how the game would be set out. Then we build ships and explore
+these islands, but in these pictures the ships are represented as
+already arriving. The ships are built out of our wooden bricks on flat
+keels made of two wooden pieces of 9 x 4-1/2; inches, which are very
+convenient to push about over the floor. Captain G. P. W. is steaming
+into the bay between the eastern and western islands. He carries heavy
+guns, his ship bristles with an extremely aggressive soldiery, who
+appear to be blazing away for the mere love of the thing. (I suspect
+him of Imperialist intentions.) Captain F. R. W. is apparently at
+anchor between his northern and southern islands. His ship is of a
+slightly more pacific type. I note on his deck a lady and a gentleman
+(of German origin) with a bag, two of our all too rare civilians. No
+doubt the bag contains samples and a small conversation dictionary in
+the negroid dialects. (I think F. R. W. may turn out to be a Liberal.)
+Perhaps he will sail on and rescue the raided huts, perhaps he will
+land and build a jetty, and begin mining among the rocks to fill his
+hold with silver. Perhaps the natives will kill and eat the gentleman
+with the bag. All that is for Captain F. R. W. to decide.
+
+You see how the game goes on. We land and alter things, and build and
+rearrange, and hoist paper flags on pins, and subjugate populations,
+and confer all the blessings of civilization upon these lands. We keep
+them going for days. And at last, as we begin to tire of them, comes
+the scrubbing brush, and we must burn our trees and dismantle our
+islands, and put our soldiers in the little nests of drawers, and stand
+the island boards up against the wall, and put everything away. Then
+perhaps, after a few days, we begin upon some other such game, just as
+we feel disposed. But it is never quite the same game, never. Another
+time it may be wildernesses for example, and the boards are hills, and
+never a drop of water is to be found except for the lakes and rivers we
+may mark out in chalk. But after one example others are easy, and next
+I will tell you of our way of making towns.
+
+
+
+Section III
+
+OF THE BUILDING OF CITIES
+
+WE always build twin cities, like London and Westminster, or
+Buda-Pesth, because two of us always want, both of them, to be mayors
+and municipal councils, and it makes for local freedom and happiness to
+arrange it so; but when steam railways or street railways are involved
+we have our rails in common, and we have an excellent law that rails
+must be laid down and switches kept open in such a manner that anyone
+feeling so disposed may send a through train from their own station
+back to their own station again without needless negotiation or the
+personal invasion of anybody else's administrative area. It is an
+undesirable thing to have other people bulging over one's houses,
+standing in one's open spaces, and, in extreme cases, knocking down and
+even treading on one's citizens. It leads at times to explanations that
+are afterwards regretted.
+
+We always have twin cities, or at the utmost stage of coalescence a
+city with two wards, Red End and Blue End; we mark the boundaries very
+carefully, and our citizens have so much local patriotism (Mr.
+Chesterton will learn with pleasure) that they stray but rarely over
+that thin little streak of white that bounds their municipal
+allegiance. Sometimes we have an election for mayor; it is like a
+census but very abusive, and Red always wins. Only citizens with two
+legs and at least one arm and capable of standing up may vote, and
+voters may poll on horseback; boy scouts and women and children do not
+vote, though there is a vigorous agitation to remove these
+disabilities. Zulus and foreign-looking persons, such as East Indian
+cavalry and American Indians, are also disfranchised. So are riderless
+horses and camels; but the elephant has never attempted to vote on any
+occasion, and does not seem to desire the privilege. It influences
+public opinion quite sufficiently as it is by nodding its head.
+
+We have set out and I have photographed one of our cities to illustrate
+more clearly the amusement of the game. Red End is to the reader's
+right, and includes most of the hill on which the town stands, a shady
+zoological garden, the town hall, a railway tunnel through the hill, a
+museum (away in the extreme right-hand corner), a church, a rifle
+range, and a shop. Blue End has the railway station, four or five
+shops, several homes, a hotel, and a farm-house, close to the railway
+station. The boundary drawn by me as overlord (who also made the hills
+and tunnels and appointed the trees to grow) runs irregularly between
+the two shops nearest the cathedral, over the shoulder in front of the
+town hall, and between the farm and the rifle range.
+
+The nature of the hills I have already explained, and this time we have
+had no lakes or ornamental water. These are very easily made out of a
+piece of glass--the glass lid of a box for example--laid upon silver
+paper. Such water becomes very readily populated by those celluloid
+seals and swans and ducks that are now so common. Paper fish appear
+below the surface and may be peered at by the curious. But on this
+occasion we have nothing of the kind, nor have we made use of a
+green-colored tablecloth we sometimes use to drape our hills. Of
+course, a large part of the fun of this game lies in the witty
+incorporation of all sorts of extraneous objects. But the incorporation
+must be witty, or you may soon convert the whole thing into an
+incoherent muddle of half-good ideas.
+
+I have taken two photographs, one to the right and one to the left of
+this agreeable place. I may perhaps adopt a kind of guide-book style in
+reviewing its principal features: I begin at the railway station. I
+have made a rather nearer and larger photograph of the railway station,
+which presents a diversified and entertaining scene to the incoming
+visitor. Porters (out of a box of porters) career here and there with
+the trucks and light baggage. Quite a number of our all-too-rare
+civilians parade the platform: two gentlemen, a lady, and a small but
+evil-looking child are particularly noticeable; and there is a wooden
+sailor with jointed legs, in a state of intoxication as reprehensible
+as it is nowadays happily rare. Two virtuous dogs regard his abandon
+with quiet scorn. The seat on which he sprawls is a broken piece of
+some toy whose nature I have long forgotten, the station clock is a
+similar fragment, and so is the metallic pillar which bears the name of
+the station. So many toys, we find, only become serviceable with a
+little smashing. There is an allegory in this--as Hawthorne used to
+write in his diary.
+
+("What is he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river?")
+
+The fences at the ends of the platforms are pieces of wood belonging to
+the game of Matador--that splendid and very educational construction
+game, hailing, I believe, from Hungary. There is also, I regret to say,
+a blatant advertisement of Jab's "Hair Color," showing the hair. (In
+the photograph the hair does not come out very plainly.) This is by G.
+P. W., who seems marked out by destiny to be the advertisement-writer
+of the next generation. He spends much of his scanty leisure inventing
+and drawing advertisements of imaginary commodities. Oblivious to many
+happy, beautiful, and noble things in life, he goes about studying and
+imitating the literature of the billboards. He and his brother write
+newspapers almost entirely devoted to these annoying appeals. You will
+note, too, the placard at the mouth of the railway tunnel urging the
+existence of Jinks' Soap upon the passing traveller. The oblong object
+on the placard  represents, no doubt, a cake of this offensive and
+aggressive commodity. The zoological garden flaunts a placard, "Zoo,
+two cents pay," and the grocer's picture of a cabbage with "Get Them"
+is not to be ignored. F. R. W. is more like the London County Council
+in this respect, and prefers bare walls.
+
+"Returning from the station," as the guide-books say, and "giving one
+more glance" at the passengers who are waiting for the privilege of
+going round the circle in open cars and returning in a prostrated
+condition to the station again, and "observing" what admirable
+platforms are made by our 9 x 4-1/2 pieces, we pass out to the left
+into the village street. A motor omnibus (a one-horse hospital cart in
+less progressive days) stands waiting for passengers; and, on our way
+to the Cherry Tree Inn, we remark two nurses, one in charge of a child
+with a plasticine head. The landlord of the inn is a small grotesque
+figure of plaster; his sign is fastened on by a pin. No doubt the
+refreshment supplied here has an enviable reputation, to judge by the
+alacrity with which a number of riflemen move to-wards the door. The
+inn, by the by, like the station and some private houses, is roofed
+with stiff paper.
+
+These stiff-paper roofs are one of our great inventions. We get thick,
+stiff paper at twopence a sheet and cut it to the sizes we need.  After
+the game is over, we put these roofs inside one another and stick them
+into the bookshelves. The roof one folds and puts away will live to
+roof another day.
+
+Proceeding on our way past the Cherry Tree, and resisting cosy
+invitation of its portals, we come to the shopping quarter of the town.
+The stock in windows is made by hand out of plasticine. We note the
+meat and hams of "Mr. Woddy," the cabbages and carrots of "Tod &
+Brothers," the general activities of the "Jokil Co." shopmen. It is de
+rigueur with our shop assistants that they should wear white helmets.
+In the street, boy scouts go to and fro, a wagon clatters by; most of
+the adult population is about its business, and a red-coated band plays
+along the roadway. Contrast this animated scene with the mysteries of
+sea and forest, rock and whirlpool, in our previous game. Further on is
+the big church or cathedral. It is built in an extremely debased Gothic
+style; it reminds us most of a church we once surveyed during a brief
+visit to Rotterdam on our way up the Rhine. A solitary boy scout,
+mindful of the views of Lord Haldane, enters its high portal. Passing
+the cathedral, we continue to the museum. This museum is no empty
+boast; it contains mineral specimens, shells--such great shells as were
+found on the beaches of our previous game--the Titanic skulls of
+extinct rabbits and cats, and other such wonders. The slender curious
+may lie down on the floor and peep in at the windows.
+
+"We now," says the guide-book, "retrace our steps to the shops, and
+then, turning to the left, ascend under the trees up the terraced hill
+on which stands the Town Hall. This magnificent building is surmounted
+by a colossal statue of a chamois, the work of a Wengen artist; it is
+in two stories, with a battlemented roof, and a crypt (entrance to
+right of steps) used for the incarceration of offenders. It is occupied
+by the town guard, who wear 'beefeater' costumes of ancient origin."
+
+Note the red parrot perched on the battlements; it lives tame in the
+zoological gardens, and is of the same species as one we formerly
+observed in our archipelago. Note, too, the brisk cat-and-dog encounter
+below. Steps descend in wide flights down the hillside into Blue End.
+The two couchant lions on either side of the steps are in plasticine,
+and were executed by that versatile artist, who is also mayor of Red
+End, G. P. W. He is present. Our photographer has hit upon a happy
+moment in the history of this town, and a conversation of the two
+mayors is going on upon the terrace before the palace. F. R. W., mayor
+of Blue End, stands on the steps in the costume of an admiral; G. P. W.
+is on horseback (his habits are equestrian) on the terrace. The town
+guard parades in their honor, and up the hill a number of musicians (a
+little hidden by trees) ride on gray horses towards them.
+
+Passing in front of the town hall, and turning to the right, we
+approach the zoological gardens. Here we pass two of our civilians: a
+gentleman in black, a lady, and a large boy scout, presumably their
+son. We enter the gardens, which are protected by a bearded janitor,
+and remark at once a band of three performing dogs, who are, as the
+guide-book would say, "discoursing sweet music." In neither ward of the
+city does there seem to be the slightest restraint upon the use of
+musical instruments. It is no place for neurotic people.
+
+The gardens contain the inevitable elephants, camels (which we breed,
+and which are therefore in considerable numbers), a sitting bear,
+brought from last game's caves, goats from the same region, tamed and
+now running loose in the gardens, dwarf elephants, wooden nondescripts,
+and other rare creatures. The keepers wear a uniform not unlike that of
+railway guards and porters. We wander through the gardens, return,
+descend the hill by the school of musketry, where soldiers are to be
+seen shooting at the butts, pass through the paddock of the old farm,
+and so return to the railway station, extremely gratified by all we
+have seen, and almost equally divided in our minds between the merits
+and attractiveness of either ward. A clockwork train comes clattering
+into the station, we take our places, somebody hoots or whistles for
+the engine (which can't), the signal is knocked over in the excitement
+of the moment, the train starts, and we "wave a long, regretful
+farewell to the salubrious cheerfulness of Chamois City."
+
+You see now how we set out and the spirit in which we set out our
+towns. It demands but the slightest exercise of the imagination to
+devise a hundred additions and variations of the scheme. You can make
+picture-galleries--great fun for small boys who can draw; you can make
+factories; you can plan out flower-gardens--which appeals very strongly
+to intelligent little girls; your town hall may become a fortified
+castle; or you may put the whole town on boards and make a Venice of
+it, with ships and boats upon its canals, and bridges across them. We
+used to have some very serviceable ships of cardboard, with flat
+bottoms; and then we used to have a harbor, and the  ships used to sail
+away to distant rooms, and even into the garden, and return with the
+most remarkable cargoes, loads of nasturtium-stem logs, for example. We
+had sacks then, made of glove-fingers, and several toy cranes. I
+suppose we could find most of these again if we hunted for them. Once,
+with this game fresh in our we went to see the docks, which struck us
+as just our old harbor game magnified.
+
+"I say, Daddy," said one of us in a quiet corner, wistfully, as one who
+speaks knowingly against the probabilities of the case, and yet with a
+faint, thin hope, "couldn't we play just for a little with these sacks
+... until some-body comes?"
+
+Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game. Then you devise
+incidents. As I wanted to photograph the particular set-out for the
+purpose of illustrating this account, I took a larger share in the
+arrangement than I usually do. It was necessary to get everything into
+the picture, to ensure a light background that would throw up some of
+the trees, prevent too much overlapping, and things like that. When the
+photographing was over, matters became more normal. I left the
+schoolroom, and when I returned I found that the group of riflemen
+which had been converging on the publichouse had been sharply recalled
+to duty, and were trotting in a disciplined, cheerless way towards the
+railway station. The elephant had escaped from the zoo into the Blue
+Ward, and was being marched along by a military patrol. The originally
+scattered boy scouts were being paraded. G. P. W. had demolished the
+shop of the Jokil Company, and was building a Red End station near the
+bend. The stock of the Jokil Company had passed into the hands of the
+adjacent storekeepers. Then the town hall ceremonies came to an end and
+the guard marched off. Then G. P. W. demolished the rifle-range, and
+ran a small branch of the urban railway uphill to the town hall door,
+and on into the zoological gardens. This was only the beginning of a
+period of enterprise in transit, a small railway boom. A number of
+halts of simple construction sprang up. There was much making of
+railway tickets, of a size that enabled passengers to stick their heads
+through the middle and wear them as a Mexican does his blanket. Then a
+battery of artillery turned up in the High Street and there was talk of
+fortifications. Suppose wild Indians were to turn up across the plains
+to the left and attack the town! Fate still has toy drawers untouched...
+
+So things will go on till putting-away night on Friday. Then we shall
+pick up the roofs and shove them away among the books, return the
+clockwork engines very carefully to their boxes, for engines are
+fragile things, stow the soldiers and civilians and animals in their
+nests of drawers, burn the trees again--this time they are sweet-bay;
+and all the joys and sorrows and rivalries and successes of Blue End
+and Red End will pass, and follow Carthage and Nineveh, the empire of
+Aztec and Roman, the arts of Etruria and the palaces of Crete, and the
+plannings and contrivings of innumerable myriads of children, into the
+limbo of games exhausted ... it may be, leaving some profit, in
+thoughts widened, in strengthened apprehensions; it may be, leaving
+nothing but a memory that dies.
+
+
+
+Section IV
+
+FUNICULARS, MARBLE TOWERS, CASTLES AND WAR GAMES, BUT VERY LITTLE OF
+WAR GAMES
+
+I have now given two general types of floor game; but these are only
+just two samples of delightful and imagination-stirring variations that
+can be contrived out of the toys I have described. I will now glance
+rather more shortly at some other very good uses of the floor, the
+boards, the bricks, the soldiers, and the railway system--that
+pentagram for exorcising the evil spirit of dulness from the lives of
+little boys and girls. And first, there is a kind of lark we call
+Funiculars. There are times when islands cease somehow to dazzle, and
+towns and cities are too orderly and uneventful and cramped for us, and
+we want something--something to whizz. Then we say: "Let us make a
+funicular. Let us make a funicular more than we have ever done. Let us
+make one to reach up to the table." We dispute whether it isn't a
+mountain railway we are after. The bare name is refreshing; it takes us
+back to that unforgettable time when we all went to Wengen, winding in
+and out and up and up the mountain side--from slush, to such snow and
+sunlight as we had never seen before. And we make a mountain railway.
+So far, we have never got it up to the table, but some day we will,
+Then we will have a station there on the flat, and another station on
+the floor, with shunts and sidings to each.
+
+The peculiar joy of the mountain railway is that, if it is properly
+made, a loaded car--not a toy engine; it is too rough a game for
+delicate, respectable engines--will career from top to bottom of the
+system, and go this way and that as your cunningly-arranged switches
+determine; and afterwards--and this is a wonderful and distinctive
+discovery--you can send it back by 'lectric.
+
+What is a 'lectric? You may well ask. 'Lectrics were invented almost by
+accident, by one of us, to whom also the name is due. It came out of an
+accident to a toy engine; a toy engine that seemed done for and that
+was yet full of life.
+
+You know, perhaps, what a toy engine is like. It has the general
+appearance of a railway engine; funnels, buffers, cab, and so forth.
+All these are very elegant things, no doubt; but they do not make for
+lightness, they do not facilitate hill-climbing. Now, sometimes an
+engine gets its clockwork out of order, and then it is over and done
+for; but sometimes it is merely the outer semblance that is
+injured--the funnel bent, the body twisted. You remove the things and,
+behold! you have bare clockwork on wheels, an apparatus of almost
+malignant energy, soul without body, a kind of metallic rage. This it
+was that our junior member instantly knew for a 'lectric, and loved
+from the moment of its stripping.
+
+(I have, by the by, known a very serviceable little road 'lectric made
+out of a clockwork mouse.)
+
+Well, when we have got chairs and boxes and bricks, and graded our line
+skilfully and well, easing the descent, and being very careful of the
+joining at the bends for fear that the descending trucks and cars will
+jump the rails, we send down first an empty truck, then trucks loaded
+with bricks and lead soldiers, and then the 'lectric; and then
+afterwards the sturdy 'lectric shoves up the trucks again to the top,
+with a kind of savagery of purpose and a whizz that is extremely
+gratifying to us. We make switches in these lines; we make them have
+level-crossings, at which collisions are always being just averted; the
+lines go over and under each other, and in and out of tunnels.
+
+The marble tower, again, is a great building, on which we devise
+devious slanting ways down which marbles run. I do not know why it is
+amusing to make a marble run down a long intricate path, and dollop
+down steps, and come almost but not quite to a stop, and rush out of
+dark places and across little bridges of card: it is, and we often do
+it.
+
+Castles are done with bricks and cardboard turrets and a portcullis of
+card, and drawbridge and moats; they are a mere special sort of
+city-building, done because we have a box of men in armor. We could
+reconstruct all sorts of historical periods if the toy soldier makers
+would provide us with people. But at present, as I have already
+complained, they make scarcely anything but contemporary fighting men.
+And of the war game I must either write volumes or nothing. For the
+present let it be nothing. Some day, perhaps, I will write a great book
+about the war game and tell of battles and campaigns and strategy and
+tactics. But this time I set out merely to tell of the ordinary joys of
+playing with the floor, and to gird improvingly and usefully at
+toymakers. So much, I think, I have done. If one parent or one uncle
+buys the wiselier for me, I shall not altogether have lived in vain.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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