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Updated: June 28, 2025
Noel listened with respect. There was the swish of a woman's dress in the passage outside. He listened to that also, his dark eyes watching the half-open door. His attention began to wander. "Noel!" said a small, hurt voice at his side. Noel's eyes shut as if at the pulling of a string. "Sorry, Peg-top! Go ahead!" "You mustn't call me Peg-top when I'm sayin' my prayers!" protested Peggy.
The little pedlar was used to this kind of thing, and was quite prepared for the fray. When the lady offered him, after much depreciatory fingering of the chosen material, two-thirds of what he asked for the stuff that was to be made into a pair of winter trousers for the mayor, he spun round and jumped like a peg-top just escaped from the string.
It's natural, you know; though I don't like to see a fellow blubbering just because he has hurt himself, or lost a peg-top, or anything of that sort." So they went up to Alick Murray, and began talking to him, and Terence said something funny and made him laugh. "I wonder what games they have here?" asked Jack.
How could I have the heart to exclusively allocate to these stately sentinels that guard my gate the titles that have afforded the interpreters such endless pleasure? I would as soon attempt to snatch from a boy his only peg-top, or from a girl her only doll, as embark upon so barbarous an atrocity.
They were originally of the wide-seated, peg-top variety, quite like the fashion of to-day, by the way or is it yesterday, in these times of sudden changes? and when they were cut off square at the knee and shirred or gathered or reefed in at the waist, they looked singularly like the typical "Dutchman's breeches."
Godfrey after breakfast cut a pole, chopping it off just below where two or three small branches had shot from it, leaving a bulge. This bulge he shaped and smoothed very carefully with his knife, so that it was in the form of a peg-top. "There," he said.
A few of the more eccentric students had long hair down to their shoulders, and wore baggy peg-top trousers of extravagant cut, which hung in loose folds over their sharp-pointed boots. On their heads were queer plug hats with flat brims.
"I do not say 'Sit down, crow' for thou art already sitting," put in a huge, powerful-looking man, arrayed in a conical puggri-encircled cap, long pink shirt over very baggy peg-top trousers, and a green waistcoat, "but I weary of thy chatter Blind-Man. Keep thy babble for fools in the market-place, where, I admit, it hath its uses.
'I shall get to spin my peg-top so as it will never tumble down, and will turn an engine for drawing water, was the prompt answer of Fergus. 'What nonsense! said Val; 'you'd better settle to get your long division sums right. 'That s girls' stuff, replied Fergus; 'you'd better settle to leave off crying for nothing.
The probability is that I shall no more find the catalogue that set me searching than I found the peg-top in the days of auld lang syne; but what has that to do with it? Look at the things I have found, the memories I have revived, the tasks that have been suggested! Life has been incalculably enriched by the fruits of this search through the papers on my study table.
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