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    Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
    Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
    Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
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    Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"

    By H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" - H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

      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

      Author: H. G. Wells

      Posting Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #3690]

      Release Date: January, 2003

      First Posted: July 22, 2001

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLOOR GAMES ***

      Produced by Alan Murray. HTML version by Al Haines.

      FLOOR GAMES

      by

      (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells

      Contents

      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

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