"It's Mr. Stoddard, that used to come to the hospital to see you so much and play checkers with you when you got better.

The living room was brightly lighted; Uncle John and the Major were playing checkers in a corner and Patsy was softly drumming on the piano.

His face at the moment glowed with animation, for he played over the deciding game in that day's match at checkers by which, at the harness shop, he had vanquished an acclaimed rival from over Higgston way.

Couldn't you take my best checkers for 'em, now, with fifty dollars quilted into the waistband,s-a-ay?" "My name's Walker,Peter Walker," was the reply.

Each time she had passed him she had brushed his elbow, scattering his checkers about.

There came a breath of silence, and a great surge of happiness that washed every checker off the board, and left the two with flushed faces.

You could play checkers on my coat-tail, as the sayin' is.

Then every few miles there ran a rivulet as clear as crystal, its bottom checkered at the riffles into a brilliant pattern like plaid delaine by the shining of the clean red, white and yellow granite pebbles through the crossed ripples from the banks.