Five cowboys playing mumble-peg during a break from work. Does anyone remember mumble-peg? I just love this photo - it gives you a sense of being there: Their hats, chaps, and holsters, horses grazing in the background. Not a western movie - the real thing!
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Erwin E Smith photographer
Oh, thanks to wikipedia: Mumblety-peg came from the practice of putting a peg into the ground a few inches and the looser had to take out with their teeth! I'll pass on this game! :)
Ok, now, that's not what I knew as mumbely-peg - I thought it was when you tossed a jack knife at a peg and the knife that landed closes to the peg and stayed in the ground won.
For sure I know how to play mumble peg! I remember playing it when I was a young feller living in the Panhandle of Texas. You had to use a two bladed knife that opened the blades on the same end. The long blade would be opened all the way, the shorter blade opened only half way. You would set the shorter blad on the ground with your finger under the knife. You would then flip the knife in the air and try and have the longer blade stick in the ground. Eachh time you missed a peg was driven further into the ground. When the peg was all the way into the ground you had to pick it out with your teeth. It wasn't too bad unless the ground was dirty. A lot of young men played this game . That was backi in the dyas when prople invented their own entertainment. This photo brings back memories I had forgotten.
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