we feel disposed. But it is never quite the same game, never. Another
time it may be wildernesses for example, and the boards are hills, and
never a drop of water is to be found except for the lakes and rivers we
may mark out in chalk. But after one example others are easy, and next I
will tell you of our way of making towns.

Section III
OF THE BUILDING OF CITIES

WE always build twin cities, like London and Westminster, or Buda-Pesth,
because two of us always want, both of them, to be mayors and municipal
councils, and it makes for local freedom and happiness to arrange it so;
but when steam railways or street railways are involved we have our
rails in common, and we have an excellent law that rails must be laid
down and switches kept open in such a manner that anyone feeling so
disposed may send a through train from their own station back to their
own station again without needless negotiation or the personal invasion
of anybody else's administrative area. It is an undesirable thing to
have other people bulging over one's houses, standing in one's open
spaces, and, in extreme cases, knocking down and even treading on one's
citizens. It leads at times to explanations that are afterwards
regretted.

We always have twin cities, or at the utmost stage of coalescence a city
with two wards, Red End and Blue End; we mark the boundaries very
carefully, and our citizens have so much local patriotism (Mr.
Chesterton will learn with pleasure) that they stray but rarely over
that thin little streak of white that bounds their municipal allegiance.
Sometimes we have an election for mayor; it is like a census but very
abusive, and Red always wins. Only citizens with two legs and at least