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Updated: June 15, 2025
Henrietta and I rather amused ourselves after dinner teaching the commandant and another officer halma, which was just then at the height of its popularity. We had brought it over from London, where the whole society was mad over it. We were staying in a country house one year where there were seven tables of halma in the long gallery.
You would set out the green and white chequer board, the rows of pawns. And the game of halma would begin. White figures leap-frogging over green, green over white. Your hand and your eyes playing, your brain hanging inert, remembering, forgetting. In the pauses of the game you waited; for the clock to strike ten, for Catty to bring in the Bible and the Prayer-book, for the evening to end.
Berkeley, interrupted in a game of Halma, came unwillingly. "Now then, Pillingshot, put your questions," said Scott. "This is a black business, Berkeley. Young Evans has lost a sovereign " "If you think I've taken his beastly quid !" said Berkeley warmly. "Make a note that, on being questioned, the man Berkeley exhibited suspicious emotion. Go on. Jam it down."
She was never ill, only tired like a child that plays too long. Her face was growing smooth and young and pretty again; a pink flush under her eyes. She would never look disapproving or reproachful any more. She couldn't listen any more when you read aloud to her. She had forgotten how to play halma. One day she found the green box in the cabinet drawer. She came to you carrying it with care.
That is, just as soon as you can give me a cup of coffee and a bite of breakfast, for it would be foolish to start off without those. But the quicker we can get ready the better. I shall go in the skiff, and take Halma and Jan with me." Nothing so allays anxiety as the necessity for immediate action, especially when such action is directed towards removing the cause for alarm. So Mrs.
He could not, without yawning piteously, spend an evening discussing the performances of the local cricket club; nor did his conduct improve when the two ladies suspended their talk and sacrificed an hour to playing four-handed halma with their husbands.
"Eric doesn't play bridge," said Mrs. Eggelby with dignity. "Doesn't he?" asked Clovis; "why not?" "None of my children have been brought up to play card games," said Mrs. Eggelby; "draughts and halma and those sorts of games I encourage. Eric is considered quite a wonderful draughts-player."
On Monday they had their progressive games, when the watch on board, the watch whose turn it was to go on leave had gone ashore to a man, were compelled, much to their disgust, to squat round on the upper deck with draughts, halma, and picture-lotto boards spread out before them.
And then he said we had hurt him, and we said we were only in fun, and he said if we were he wasn't, and ill feeling might have grown up even out of a playful brotherly act like ours had been, only Alice chucked the Halma and said 'Let dogs delight. Come on let's play something. Then Dora said, 'Yes, but look here. Now we're together I do want to say something.
As for the priests, there was the Abbe Halma, the same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on la Foudre, said: "Bah! Who is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?"
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