CHAPTER XXXIII.
"POUR PASSER LE TEMPS"-- A SET OF CHESSMEN PROCURED UNDER DIFFICULTIES -- RELIGIOUS SERVICES--THE DEVOTED PRIEST--WAR SONG.
The time moved with leaden feet.

Do the best we could, there were very many tiresome hours for which no occupation whatever could be found.
All that was necessary to be done during the day--attending roll call, drawing and cooking rations, killing lice and washing--could be disposed of in an hour's time, and we were left with fifteen or sixteen waking hours, for which there was absolutely no employment.

Very many tried to escape both the heat and ennui by sleeping as much as possible through the day, but I noticed that those who did this soon died, and consequently I did not do it.

Card playing had sufficed to pass away the hours at first, but our cards soon wore out, and deprived us of this resource.

My chum, Andrews, and I constructed a set of chessmen with an infinite deal of trouble.