"It's Mr. Stoddard, that used to come to the hospital to see you so much and play checkers with you when you got better.

He moved all the checkers.

" Then the backs drew their checkers up to position as interference, and the tackles and guards showed what particular enemies they were to bowl over.

To instil into the heads of his men the necessity of being in just the right place at the right time, Tug drew a map of the field on a large sheet of paper, and spread it on his center-table; then he took twenty-two checkers and set them in array like two football teams.

To while away the time they played games and taught the Inca checkers and chess, as well as bowling-on-the-green and quoits.

There came a breath of silence, and a great surge of happiness that washed every checker off the board, and left the two with flushed faces.

Each time she had passed him she had brushed his elbow, scattering his checkers about.