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"It's your turn, Mr. F.," said Mr. Crabbe. Mr. Frye looked at the board with distaste. There were no more jumps for him to make. He pushed a round black checker forward. "There you are," he said. "Here I go," declared Mr. Crabbe. And he began hopping again. Mr. Frye shook his head. "I don't know as I'm feeling very good to-day," he told Farmer Barly.
Goods are called off by assistants, checker compares with invoice, selling price and stock number are entered on goods, and selling price marked on invoice. Until properly marked off, no goods are allowed to be sent out of the receiving room. If goods do not come up to sample, and are to be returned, it must be done at once, and shipper advised.
The West Ward fellows had a Checker Club, the Third Form fellows had a Puzzle Club, the Collegiates had a Canadian Literature Club; even the Mill boys down on the Flats had a Captain Kidd Club, proving themselves at times bandits quite worthy the club's name.
"You'll have to wait here until your foremen are called," declared the checker. "Say, what's the trouble here!" demanded one American belligerently. "Who's your foreman?" asked the checker, a young fellow named Royal "Payson if it's any of your business." replied the workman roughly. The others, seeing him take this attitude, were willing to let him talk for all.
These, O Yudhishthira, are some of the names which Chastisement bears, viz., Sword, Sabre, Righteousness, Fury, the Irresistible, the Parent of prosperity, Victory, Punisher, Checker, the Eternal, the Scriptures, Brahmana, Mantra, Avenger, the Foremost of first Legislators, Judge, the Undecaying, God, the individual whose course is irresistible, the Ever-agoing, the First born, the individual without affections, the Soul of Rudra, the eldest Manu and the great Benefactor.
Martin, and the clash of arms or halberds, and the pacing of the sentries' footsteps, are heard at every closed gate of the little walled town. Patches of warm light from candle and hearth checker the snow which lies glistening on the sidewalks, for there are no street lamps on the St. Paul, St. Mary or Notre Dame streets of these old days.
"Silver Phil wins three or four bets; it's Nell that catches on to his racket, an' signs up to Cherokee onder the table with her little foot. One glance an' Cherokee is loaded with information. This Silver Phil, it seems, in a sperit of avarice, equips himse'f with a copper little wooden checker, is what this copper is one he's done filched from Cherokee the day prior.
It has seen the first flush of spring in the broad allee, when the shadows of tiny leaflets overhead were beginning to checker the cool, square flagstones. It has seen the glare and fulness of summer sunshine and shadow, the flying of November gold through the air, the gaunt limbs, and stark, rigid, death-like whiteness of winter.
The moment she turned around, he ducked to the floor. "What do you suppose he is doing?" whispered Bobby to Betty. "Tommy can think up tricks faster than any boy I ever knew." Whatever Tommy was doing, he finished in a very few moments and sauntered back to the checker game, his eyes dancing.
Yet at that work he had been a menial; it involved no transom-born thrills, no street-corner tailer's suspense. As a checker he was at least the master of other men. His public career had actually begun as a strike breaker.
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