"Is it a very hard game?"
"Very hard."
"Did it take you long to learn?"
"Years and years."
"Could I learn it?"
The trader sat back in his chair and looked fixedly at the native. "You might," he said.
"Will you teach me?"
"I will try to; bring up that chair and sit down."
The rest of the afternoon was spent by Schiller initiating Gonye into the mysteries of draughts.
Next day the native came again.