A game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground.
[From the phrase mumble the peg, from the fact that originally the loser had to pull up with the teeth a peg driven into the ground.]
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Flannery Again
"Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack." From the short story "Good Country People"--one of my all time favorites.
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