I'd rather watch a four-mile race between two turtles.

It's a lot swifter and more thrilling." "It takes intelligence to play chess, Happy," said St.Clair.
"And time, too," rejoined Happy.

"If a thing consumes a lifetime anyway, what's the use of intelligence ?" A bugle sounded.

The two colonels raised their gray heads and gave the chess men and the board to an orderly.

The four boys returned to their horses, and in a few minutes Jackson's army was once more on the march, the Acadian band near the head of the column playing as joyously as if it had never lost a member in battle.