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Updated: June 20, 2025
"We can go out and play croquet while it washes," announced Cleo grandly. "That's the beauty of these washers." They agreed that was real beauty, and off they romped to the brand new croquet set, to try their skill at pegging balls under wire wickets. "I think I'll go in and make the starch," Margaret proposed, as she missed a wire.
But the beans kept on falling about the porch, and one struck a Tin Soldier and knocked him over. This Soldier was a very small chap. He was, in fact, the drummer boy. "But who is shooting the beans at us?" cried Mirabell, as she lay down on the porch behind her Lamb on Wheels. "I don't know who is pegging beans at us," said Arnold, looking around and out toward the street.
With wildly beating hearts the Vikings gazed up among the gray wilderness of stone and underbrush, and first one, then another, caught sight of something brown and hairy that came toddling down toward them, now rolling like a ball of yarn, now turning a somersault, and now again pegging industriously along on four clumsy paws.
The Admiral undertakes to keep pegging away at the Straits whilst we in Alexandria are putting on our war paint. He will see to it, he says, that they think more of battleships than of landings. He is greatly relieved to hear I have practically made up my mind to go for the South of the Peninsula and to keep in closest touch with the Fleet.
Wendover is a young man, but he has evidently abused his constitution; there is no knowing what may happen if you don't take care of him. Alcohol is a cumulative poison, and that "pegging" I have told you of is diabolical. Nature throws off an over-dose of alcohol, but the daily, hourly dose eats into the system. 'How am I to take care of him? asked Ida, despairingly.
There was a splutter of snorts, and, 'what in Hell's, and the fat girth of an apple-shaped body ripped the tent pegging free and came out under the tepee skirt followed by another leg, and two oozy hands flabbily clawing at the grass roots to stop the unusual exit. One hand held a flat flask and the air became flavored with the second-hand fumes of a whiskey cask.
It might make 'em sick if nothing else, and I couldn't seem to see them pegging away at one of our ships with one or two or three of those torpedoes, even if I had monkeyed with their tail feathers. "So I tipped the wink to Beany to kind of hold the center of the stage, and, say, that was funny!
But as to this he had naturally kept his own counsel with Kitty. "He is not the most agreeable of customers," he said, gayly. "But I shall get through. Pegging away does it." "And then to see how our papers flatter him!" cried Kitty. "How little people know, who think they know! It would be amusing to show the world the real Lord Parham."
He slowly started in an opposite direction from where I was standing. After he had turned the corner, I walked rapidly around the block, and saw the old man still pegging away, watching everything along his path. Soon his steps quickened, and I was compelled to walk rapidly. Finally he turned a corner, entering a narrow alley extending between rows of low buildings.
And on that and the following day there were sports lemon- cutting, tent pegging, races for the cavalry; athletic sports, tugs-of- war, mule and donkey races for the infantry. The drums and fifes played national airs, and the sailors bore their full share in the fun. As time went on the preparations for the next move advanced.
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