Chess

CHESS.

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pointing threateningly over the dash-board. Would the suspense ever end! The seconds seemed ages! We heard a door creak to the right and quick as a flash turned our guns that way. A lantern fl.ashed in our faces and the voice said, "toll." Then, noticing our armament, "what do you take me for, a Spaniard."

We paid the toll without a word of explanation, drove through the gate which the keeper opened for us and neither said a word until at last H-- bur st out, "A couple of scared kids ! " And so we were. A.W.F .

At chess to make a useless move, Of hurtful consequence will prove ; A skillful player without design, Shifts not a '' soldier'' from his line.

Your time is short, try to foresee At once, what the event may be Of every move. But first attend, Where you can best your king defend.

Place him in a well guarded square, The most remote from hostile snare ; And may the fin;t rule which you make Be, not in too much haste to take.

With heedful eye your men survey, And with slow hand point on their way. Your head suggests a scheme-look round , Perhaps a better may be found.

Our life is like this game we play, And if we spend one idle day It tells upon our after-life, For we'll be wound ed in the strife.