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FLOOR GAMES

if we hunted for them. Once, with this game fresh in our minds, we went to see the docks, which struck us as just our old harbor game magnified.
"I say, Daddy," said one of us in a quiet corner, wistfully, as one who speaks knowingly against the probabilities of the case, and yet with a faint, thin hope, "couldn't we play just for a little with these sacks . . . until somebody comes?"
Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game. Then you devise incidents. As I
