The position at which it hits the groundsideways or straight updecides the number of. Heck, Mom could have pulled out her pocket knife and cut pie dough, cleaned our dirty fingernails, pried open lids and found numerous other creative ways to use her handy pocket knife. Mumblety-peg involves throwing a pocket knife deep into the ground.
Many a man was seen cleaning his fingernails, carving a piece of wood, cutting twine and using a knife as his handiest tool. Because it’s all you need to play the game of mumbley peg. But it can also be a source of instant, anywhere entertainment. And, perhaps only a man would think of pulling the darn thing out of the ground with his teeth. It’s handy for cutting open packages, severing twine, and, of course, eating an apple like a bad ass. But then a knife was entertainment for the male side of the equation. Then I wondered what the big deal was all about. After several tries and masculine instruction, I sent the blade into the earth. I held the blade between my fingers and tossed it to the ground. I thought it was a spectator sport, but now Dad handed the blade to me. I had watched the farm hands and Dad toss their knives many times. DescriptionChildren from Seabrook Farms pulling out a peg while playing mumble pegon an outing to Parvin State Park. I must have been around eight at the time. In school-days and in town he acknowledged the sway of those mysterious and irresistible forces which produce tops at one season, and marbles at another, and kites at another, and bind all boyish hearts to play mumble-the-peg at the due time more certainly than the stars are bound to their orbits. The game was played as early as the 17th century in the British Isles. Now I know why men spit.ĭad unfolded the knife and handed it to me. Mumblety-peg, also spelled mumbledy-peg, or mumbly-peg, original name mumble the peg, game of skill played with a knife, usually a jackknife.
Originally, the loser had to remove the peg from the ground with his teeth. Webster goes on to tell me that this game was first known to be used in 1627. Mumbly-peg: noun (mumblety peg, mumble-the-peg, mumble peg (Webster-Merriam)ĭefinition: a game in which the players try to flip a knife from various positions so that the blade will stick into the ground. Luckily, dad gave us a little leeway, allowing us to shoot a BB gun and play mumblety-peg. We girls worked as hard as any boy, but there were some passages of youth in which we were denied participation, such as hunting with our dads, scratching our backsides and spitting on the ground. It was too bad that I wasn’t a boy, but I couldn’t help it. mumblety-peg, also spelled mumbledy-peg, or mumbly-peg, original name mumble the peg, game of skill played with a knife, usually a jackknife. I stood with Dad in the circle (the yard between the barn and house).
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