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Updated: May 23, 2025
The wedding morning dawned, as bright and beautiful a winter's day as nature ever vouchsafed a happy bridal pair. Checkers was up with the lark. He felt the weight of the nations upon his shoulders.
Domino, Dorian and Senator Grady, the three eastern horses, favorites in the betting, were cheered as they passed to the very echo; while others of the eight had their many supporters, who had backed their belief with some share of their wealth, at longer and much more interesting odds. "There's the baby'll get the dough," said Checkers, as Senator Grady passed.
"Now, boy," he said, "luck's ben a-comin' mighty hard for you and me these last few weeks, and I ain 't a-sayin' it's over yit for both o' us." Checkers made no response. The old man chewed ruminatingly, and spat at a "devil's-horse" which sat alertly atop of a shrub near by.
The officers from Generals to Captains were of course older than we, who were each only about twenty years of age, so that naturally they fell to the older members of the family, while we were entertained by the younger daughters, who were in their "teens." With back gammon checkers and cards the evening passed pleasantly.
Having reported to their foremen and the checkers, they were quite at liberty to go over into Paloma or elsewhere. A few of them had gone. Some others had an uneasy feeling that they wouldn't like to face the contempt in the eyes of the young chief engineer if he happened to see them going away from camp. "It's none of the business of that chap Reade," growled one of the workmen.
But if she thinks of herself " Mary Houghton sighed; her husband ended her sentence for her: "She'll upset the whole kettle of fish?" "What I'm afraid of," she said, with a troubled look, "is that you are right: she's inclined to be jealous, I saw her frown when he was playing checkers with Edith.
A favorite road vehicle for passengers is a wheel barrow, and a mast and sail are often attached to aid in its propulsion, with a fair wind. Kite-flying is a sport for old men, boys look on. The game of checkers or draughts is played with 360 men. Shop signs are set on end. White is the universal color for full mourning. Men make women's head dresses. Women row heavy boats on the canals.
The favorite swung very wide at the turn, losing several lengths; his jockey then drew in behind three others, and allowed himself to be hopelessly "pocketed." Up to now Checkers' new acquaintance had been silent; but at this exhibition of incompetent jockeyship he expressed a desire to be "good and damned if that ride would n't frost a cigar-sign Indian."
Gora will have to work anyhow, and as for Mortimer " she glanced fondly at her manly young son, who was amiably playing checkers in the parlor with his sister, "he is sure to make his fortune." "I don't know," said Mr. Dwight heavily. "I don't know." "Why, what do you mean?" asked his wife sharply. Mrs.
"Why, Checkers dear," she answered looking into his eyes, "the whole world could n't turn me against you I love you." Checkers kissed her again. In the bright starlight they sat together, once more on the little rustic bench under the tree, listening with ready sympathy, as each related to each the trials of the day.
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