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FUNICULARS, WAR GAMES
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Castles are done with bricks and cardboard turrets and a portcullis of card, and draw-bridge 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 noth-

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