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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I've been watching that piece right along, and he's never been nearer the king-row than he is this minute." A hot discussion ensued. The General forgot him self and joined in in his usual positive, authoritative way. "I say the man had been crowned. I saw him crowned and the crown afterward knocked off. There's the crown by the side there." Shorty's wrath rose.
"No, but your scheme of honesty takes you right into the king-row of the ramrodders, and I can't train with the bunch that will flock to you. Your theory is good but the practice will break your heart just as sure as God hasn't made humans perfect! You'll be up against it!
A peal of triumph from the rear room indicated that Major Cooney had reached the king-row in the teeth of bitter opposition. The peal came from Looloo, who should have been reading "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" with a big dictionary instead of hanging over her father's shoulder.
It tried Jerome sorely to capture Lucina's men and bar her out from the king-row, and she sometimes chid him for careless playing. Sometimes, after Jerome was gone and Lucina in bed, Abigail Merritt, who had always a kind but furtively keen eye upon the two young people, talked a little anxiously to the Squire.
There was a terrible Indian fight here once; the Pawnees in the king-row, and all the hosts of the Midianites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, Kiowa, Comanche, and Kaw, rag-tag and bobtail, trying to get 'em out. I don't know who won, but the citadel got christened Pawnee Rock. It took a fountain filled with blood to do it, though." Rex Krane gave a long whistle.
Time is the board, and the various vicissitudes of life make up the chequered field, ourselves the wooden "men;" each and all strive for preferment, and whether it be gained or not, depends solely upon the shrewdness of him who plays the game. The "king-row" may designate the pinnacle of earthly wishes and hopes, while the various "moves" may show the struggle for that desirable goal-happiness.
Prudy played in high glee, for Susy allowed her to jump all her men, and march triumphantly into the king-row, at the head of a victorious army. "There, now, Rosy," said Susy, gently, "are you willing to let me go out riding? I can't play any more if I ride, for I must dress Dotty's doll, and feed my canary."
Ah! how many of us get "penned" and "cornered" and many too, in their headlong course, are "jumped," and taken off the scene of action. Truly, there is a vast similitude between this game of chequers and the bolder one of life. Here was poor Carlton but lately struggling along the chequered field, now moving literally towards the king-row.
"Well, ma, just you see how mean Grace is! There, she wants me to jump that man yonder, so she'll take two of mine, and go right in the king-row!" "But, Horace," said Grace, gently, "what do I play for if I don't try to beat?" "There now," cried he, "chase my men up to the king-row, so I can't crown 'em, do!" "Just what I'm doing," replied Grace, coolly.
I'll put every cent I may have for the next 10 years on him, even though he's handicapped by a Noah's deluge for 40 days and 40 nights. And when it comes to playin' big checkers, with a whole State for a board, and brigades and divisions for men, he kin skunk old Bragg every time, without half tryin'. He's busted his front row all to pieces, and is now goin' for his king-row.
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