Enough of stories.

We must learn a little." "To-day is a holiday," grumbled Solomon.
"It is never a holiday for the study of the Law." "Only this once, father; let's play draughts." Moses weakly yielded.

Draughts was his sole relaxation and when Solomon acquired a draught board by barter his father taught him the game.

Moses played the Polish variety, in which the men are like English kings that leap backwards and forwards and the kings shoot diagonally across like bishops at chess.

Solomon could not withstand these gigantic grasshoppers, whose stopping places he could never anticipate.