. Floor games . ders. The slender curious maylie down on the floor and peepin at the windows. We now, says the guide-book, retrace our steps to theshops, and then, turning to theleft, ascend under the trees upthe terraced hill on which standsthe Town Hall. This magnifi-cent building is surmounted bya colossal statue of a chamois,the work of a Wengen artist;it is in two stories, with a bat-tlemented roof, and a crypt(entrance to right of steps)used for the incarceration ofoffenders. It is occupied by THE BUILDING OF CITIES 69 the town guard, who wearc beefeater costumes of an-cient origin. Note
. Floor games . ders. The slender curious maylie down on the floor and peepin at the windows. We now, says the guide-book, retrace our steps to theshops, and then, turning to theleft, ascend under the trees upthe terraced hill on which standsthe Town Hall. This magnifi-cent building is surmounted bya colossal statue of a chamois,the work of a Wengen artist;it is in two stories, with a bat-tlemented roof, and a crypt(entrance to right of steps)used for the incarceration ofoffenders. It is occupied by THE BUILDING OF CITIES 69 the town guard, who wearc beefeater costumes of an-cient origin. Note the red parrot perchedon the battlements; it lives tamein the zoological gardens, andis of the same species as onewe formerly observed in ourarchipelago. Note, too, thebrisk cat-and-dog encounter be-low. Steps descend in wideflights down the hillside intoBlue End. The two couchantlions on either side of the stepsare in plasticine, and were exe-cuted by that versatile artist,who is also mayor of Red End, ^%v KAL
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