. Floor games . the soldiers, and the railwaysystem — that pentagram forexorcising the evil spirit of dul-1 ness from the lives of littleboys and girls. And first,there is a kind of lark we callFuniculars. There are timeswhen islands cease somehowto dazzle, and towns and citiesare too orderly and uneventfuland cramped for us, and wewant something—something towhizz. Then we say: Letus make a funicular. Let usmake a funicular more than wehave ever done. Let us makeone to reach up to the table. FUNICULARS, WAR GAMES 87 We dispute whether it isnt amountain railway we are bare name is ref
. Floor games . the soldiers, and the railwaysystem — that pentagram forexorcising the evil spirit of dul-1 ness from the lives of littleboys and girls. And first,there is a kind of lark we callFuniculars. There are timeswhen islands cease somehowto dazzle, and towns and citiesare too orderly and uneventfuland cramped for us, and wewant something—something towhizz. Then we say: Letus make a funicular. Let usmake a funicular more than wehave ever done. Let us makeone to reach up to the table. FUNICULARS, WAR GAMES 87 We dispute whether it isnt amountain railway we are bare name is refreshing;it takes us back to that unfor-gettable time when we all wentto Wengen, winding in andout and up and up the moun-tain side — from slush, to suchsnow and sunlight as we hadnever seen before. And wemake a mountain railway. Sofar, we have never got it up tothe table, but some day wewill. Then we will have astation there on the flat, andanother station on the floor,with shunts and sidings to / 88 FLOOR GAMES The peculiar joy of themountain railway is that, if it isproperly made, a loaded car— not a toy engine; it is toorough a game for delicate, re-spectable engines — will careerfrom top to bottom of thesystem, and go this way .andthat as your cunningly-arrangedswitches determine; and after-wards — and this is a wonderfuland distinctive discovery — youcan send it back by lectric. What is a lectric ? Youmay well ask. Lectrics wereinvented almost by accident,by one of us, to whom also the
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