. Floor games . 36 FLOOR GAMES hut. The thatched roof isreally that nice ribbed paperthat comes round bottles—apriceless boon to these that comes into the houseis saved for us. The ownerof the hut lounges outside thedoor. He is a dismountedcavalry-corps man, and he ownsone cow. His fence, I maynote, belonged to a littlewooden farm we bought inSwitzerland. Its human inhab-itants are scattered; its beastsfollow a precarious living aswild guinea-pigs on the islandsto the THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS 37 Your attention is particularlydirected to the trees aboutand behind the temple, whic
. Floor games . 36 FLOOR GAMES hut. The thatched roof isreally that nice ribbed paperthat comes round bottles—apriceless boon to these that comes into the houseis saved for us. The ownerof the hut lounges outside thedoor. He is a dismountedcavalry-corps man, and he ownsone cow. His fence, I maynote, belonged to a littlewooden farm we bought inSwitzerland. Its human inhab-itants are scattered; its beastsfollow a precarious living aswild guinea-pigs on the islandsto the THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS 37 Your attention is particularlydirected to the trees aboutand behind the temple, whichthicken to a forest on the fur-ther island to the right. Thesetrees we make of twigs takenfrom trees and bushes in thegarden, and stuck into holes inour boards. Formerly we livedin a house with a little woodclose by, and our forests werewonderful. Now we are re-stricted to our garden, and wecould get nothing for this setout but jasmine and have wilted a little, andare not nearly such spirited A
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