Chess and checkermen also afford a chance to display skill.
At each end are two regenerators filled with checker firebricks through which air or gas passes on its way to the furnace, and through which, at due intervals, the products of combustion emerge as they pass to the stack.
Neither should we wonder that the checkerpattern in weaving should first appear on the west coast among the only peoples possessing a material adapted to this form of ornamentation.
The puzzle is to get [Illustration: Placing the Checkers] them in four piles of two men each without omitting to jump over two checker men every time a move is made.
This can be done on a checker board, as shown in Fig.
A Checker Board Puzzle [233] Place eight checker men upon thechecker board as shown in the first row in the sketch.
You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
They must be cut apart and rearranged so as to form a perfect checker board.
To the right of the porch was suspended a great Mankalah rug made in the pattern of a large checker board; but which on closer inspection appeared to be imperfectly put together, as several of the squares were missing.
He stuck the flimsy in his pocket, and waited while the checker went through the routine of recording his log and making out a pay voucher.
In the celebrated short weight cases of the sugar scandals, the checker had a steel spring like a corset stay that he thrust into the mechanism of the scale and retarded it, thus resulting in a showing of short weight.
That an individual weigher may report short weights it is necessary that his associate at the scales, a checker, should share in his deceptions, for the checker is a witness of the record of the scales.
Another half hour passed, and then he decided to get up and watch one of the checkergames that was in progress near him.
Then, too, he must make his exit naturally, so as to arouse no suspicion in the minds of the checker players, who might be foes just as well as friends.
Red haw checker pieces have been compared with ebony for wearing quality.
I say," cried Harry, "what will you give me for a checker right now?
Laughton and John McMaster have chosen sides for another checker match.
A finely finished round shape board with checker board on reverse side.
Shooting discs for carroms form a complete set ofchecker men for playing on reverse side.
Peruvian work executed on a frame or in a rude loom, a checker pattern being produced by arranging the warp and woof now close together and now wide apart.
Herring bone and checkerfigures in fictile forms transferred from the textile.
In the first example shown, herring bone patterns appear as the result of textile combination, and in the second a triangular checker is produced in the same way.
The checkerfiends can play checkers to their heart's content, jumping his men and crowning a man king without half the fuss the usual crowning of kings calls for.
If the matting has a dark red stripe the effect is good, but checker marks are not pleasant.
Tinkletown resumed its tranquil attitude and the checker games began to thrive once more.
But at times the older Bobbsey twins were so interested in their checker game that they hardly heard the sounds outside the log cabin.
Well, seems to me there's some dominoes around somewhere, and I did see a checker board the other day.
The girl exits and he resumes his seat) Cliff Come on, Good Black, lemme wrap dis checker roun yo' neck.
Good Black Come here then, fish, and lemme bend a checkergame over yo' head.
Whatever Tommy was doing, he finished in a very few moments and sauntered back to the checker game, his eyes dancing.
Winifred Marion Brown, in addition to his ability as a checker player, was a good pianist, and he obligingly played for them to dance.
Here I witnessed a checkercontest of a low order between two unscrupulous brothers.
Hut this afternoon while crouching between the feet of two embattled checker players.
At the time office the metal tickets are sorted out and placed on a numbered board; this the checker receives and carries round to all the men and hands them their brasses.
