Uploaded on January 16, 2012
My cousin taught me how to play
Checkers, just the other day.
He had the red ones, and I had black,
And when I jumped his,
He jumped mine back.
He took so many that when we’d done,
He had all of mine, and so he won.
I think that when we play today,
We’ll do it just the other way—
He can black ones,
And I’ll have red,
And maybe I’ll win this time, instead.
—Kathryn Jackson
The Golden Book of 365 Stories
01.16.2024: That checker/chessboard was lost for a while beneath the window seat in the family room. I didn’t discover it until I dug in cleaned out.