The game is 100, and four can play at a time.

That game would be very simple played on a stationary floor, but with us, to play it well required science.

We had to allow for the reeling of the ship to the right or the left.

Very often one made calculations for a heel to the right and the ship did not go that way.

The consequence was that that disk missed the whole hopscotch plan a yard or two, and then there was humiliation on one side and laughter on the other.
When it rained the passengers had to stay in the house, of course--or at least the cabins--and amuse themselves with games, reading, looking out of the windows at the very familiar billows, and talking gossip.
By 7 o'clock in the evening, dinner was about over; an hour's promenade on the upper deck followed; then the gong sounded and a large majority of the party repaired to the after cabin (upper), a handsome saloon fifty or sixty feet long, for prayers.