from the easel and set it over beside
the propped-up pool, and then stood back and looked at his own
reflection and then at the soul which he had re-made in his own image:
and the only way he could tell them apart was by the background.

"That's one of the best pieces of copying I ever did," cried Gud. "I am
delighted with my craftsmanship. But before I make the rest of the
crowd, I think we had better materialize ourselves, otherwise there
would not be equality in the world, because we would be immaterial and
hence be different from the others."

"Quite right, you are, comrade," said the soul, who was now the image of
Gud and so had to agree with him.

Gud looked around for some clever trick by which he could make this
materialization impressive--and the soul also looked around, being Gud's
double and having identical thoughts. When Gud saw that his thoughts
were the soul's thoughts, he was annoyed, because he saw he could not do
anything now to astonish or impress the soul. So Gud decided to
materialize without any hocus pocus, and the soul thought what Gud
thought; so they materialized themselves without more ado.

"Well," said Gud, "let's make the rest of us."

"That's what I was thinking," agreed the soul.

"And shall we be savage or civilized?"

"Civilized," said the soul; "of course, it will be a lot of bother to
make all the appurtenances of civilization, but one can't have equality
as long as there is savagery and poverty in the world."

"That's just what I was thinking," agreed Gud, annoyed to find himself
thinking the soul's thoughts.

So Gud, and his image that had been the soul, made a world full of
civilized beings and all the appurtenances of civilization, and they did
it very quickly, for they were both impatient to find themselves
thinking the other's thoughts, and were desirous to get the job done and
get away from that world and get back to the Underdog.

And when they had done this thing they found themselves in a great
convention hall that had arisen where the garden had been. The hall was
full of creatures made in the exact image of Gud and in the image of the
soul that Gud had re-made in his own image.

As Gud glanced around, marveling at the myriads of creatures that were
exactly alike, he suddenly realized that he could no longer identify the
soul for which he had done all this--and for a brief moment he was very
much relieved for that particular creature had annoyed him grieviously