In fact, I knew a schoolboy about eight years of age who was a better reasoned than our friend, the Captain.
His success at guessing in the game of even and odd attracted universal admiration .
This game is simple, and is played with marbles.
One played holds in his hand a number of marbles, and demands of another whether that number is even or odd.
If the guess is right, the guesser wins one; if wrong, he loses one.
The boy of whom I speak won all the marbles of the school.
Of course he had some rules of guessing; and these lay in mere observation and guessing of the intelligence of his opponents.