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Updated: May 14, 2025
I do not know why my boy's associations with Delorac's Island were especially wild in their character, for nothing more like outlawry than the game of mumble-the-peg ever occurred there. Perhaps it was because the boys had to get to it by water that it seemed beyond the bounds of civilization.
It was thought a great thing in a kite to pull, and it was a favor to another boy to let him take hold of your string and feel how your kite pulled. If you wanted to play mumble-the-peg, or anything, while your kite was up, you tied it to a stake in the ground, or gave it to some other fellow to hold; there were always lots of fellows eager to hold it.
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.
He did not even like good, hearty play, for any great length of time, but was very fond of the play that boys call mumble-the-peg, because, as he said, you could sit down to play it. He fished a little, but if the fish did not bite at the first place, he sat down; he would not move, but just sat and waited for them to come to him.
It was thought a great thing in a kite to pull, and it was a favor to another boy to let him take hold of your string and feel how your kite pulled. If you wanted to play mumble-the-peg, or anything, while your kite was up, you tied it to a stake in the ground, or gave it to some other fellow to hold; there were always lots of fellows eager to hold it.
I'm going to have a fellow there, an awfully rich fellow want to interest him in some things, and I've invited him down. He is young Router, the son of the great Router, you know who he is?" "Well, no, I don't believe I do. Good-by. Sorry I can't come; but I have an engagement." "What is it?" "To play mumble-the-peg with some boys: Haile Tabb's boys." "Oh! hang the boys! Come up to dinner.
There were shade-trees all along the street, that you could climb if you wanted to, or that you could lie down under when you had run yourself out of breath, or play mumble-the-peg.
My boy was not allowed to stone them; but when he was with the other fellows, and his elder brother was not along, he could not help stoning them. There were shade trees all along that street, that you could climb if you wanted to, or that you could lie down under when you had run yourself out of breath, or play mumble-the-peg.
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