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The fellow's eyes were desperate, but he was forcing himself to go through with it. "Murtagh," he said, and his voice broke on the second syllable. "Owen Murtagh." "Murtang.... No registration!" The Wayne checker shrugged. "Next!" "It's Murtagh. M-U-R-T-A-G-H. Owen Murtagh, of 738 Morrisy " "Protest!"
Having heard that a new process of flexible molds had been invented, by which the most intricate designs could be cast with ease, he came to New York in 1859, bringing with him his "Checker Players" and "Town Pump," and the model of a new group on which he was then engaged.
"Sometime we'll plant hedges and forest trees and checker the country with windbreaks until days like this will belong only to an old pioneer's memory," Asher said, as the storm swept wide away. "Then, I'm glad I came early enough to see this. I'm getting 'plains-broke' along with Juno. Isn't it wonderful to be a real pioneer?
I axpect ol' 67, she be here on Yoodgment Day." Old Nelson put his pipe back, puffed three times, frowned at the checker-board, scratched his yellow head, let drop his eyelids and pondered. At about the time Bowen began to think the keeper must be taking a nap, a long arm swooped down and moved a black checker one square north-easterly.
The Checker Club disbanded last winter because the members got to quarreling over self-starters, and I understand that in the Women's Missionary Societies and the afternoon clubs the comparative riding qualities of the various tonneaus about the city have about driven out teething and styles as a subject of debate.
His trouble was with his tongue and not with his ears, as many an older fellow has found when he undertook to make a speech before critical people. The camp was all astir when they rode in, and the coffee-pot was already upon the fire. "That's the checker, my boy," said Yellow Pine, when he saw the fish. "We sha'n't do any starving.
Now, do you know I am very fond of checkers?” And with that, what did he do but put out his long tongue, and with one sweep he licked up the red checkers and the black checkers and the red and black squared checker board at one swallow, and down his throat it went, like a sled going down hill. “Ah, ha!” exclaimed the alligator. “Those were very fine checkers.
"Tell what, child?" "The boarding-house woman! She's the checker!" "The what?" "She's the one to feed them! Oh! please! It would be so splendid for her, She's so poor, and has such trouble to pay rent and keep going. She is too generous for her own good, father says, and keeps her house too well. She would cook for them and they could eat in her big dining-room.
Luck was with me, for the minute I got this idea I spotted a Checker taxi and rushed at it so hard the driver nearly fainted. 'Follow that Yellow ahead! I yelled to the driver, and before he came to a full stop I had jumped in and we were off." "We trailed down Sheridan Road, through Lincoln Park, and on to Michigan Avenue the girl in the bus, Marsh in the Yellow, and me in the Checker.
It's all ordered and cut out up to Ledyard." "Cut out? Then why don't they send it?" "They can't get the cars." "That'll do to tell. 'Can't get the cars! What sort of a railroad have they got up there?" "Max, here, can tell you about that, I guess," said Peterson. "It's the G. & M.," said the lumber checker. "That's enough for any one who's lived in Michigan. It ain't much good."
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