“Oh! what are these?” the wondering Peter cried.
“This, my good lad, is call’d the Billiard-room,”
Answer’d his guide; “and here the gentry come,
And with these maces and these cues they play,
At their spare time, or in a rainy day.”
“And what this chequer’d box?—for play, I guess?”—
“You judge it right; ’tis for the game of Chess. 490
There! take your time, examine what you will,
There’s King, Queen, Knight—it is a game of skill:
And these are Bishops; you the difference see.”—