Stonewall Jackson thinks that one hour a day for play keeps Jack from being a dull boy." "Just look at our colonels, will you ?" said Happy Tom.

"They're believers in what Arthur says." Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire were sitting in a corner of a rail fence opposite each other, and their bent gray heads nearly touched.

But their eyes were on a small board between them and now and then they moved carved figures back and forth.
"They're playing chess," whispered Happy Tom.

"They found the board and set of men in the captured baggage, and this is their first chance to use them." "They can't possibly finish a game," said Harry.
"No," said Tom, "they can't, and it's just as well.

Why anybody wants to play chess is more than I can understand.