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Updated: June 17, 2025
Nine times out of ten it will crumble, and the tenth time means merely a root to cut or a stone to pry out. At length you are possessed of a plot of clean, fresh earth, level and soft, free from projections. But do not unpack your tent. Lay a young birch or maple an inch or so in diameter across a log. Two clips will produce you a tent-peg.
For my part I think that trade from tribe to tribe sufficiently accounts for the presence of such articles as tent-pegs and pieces of iron, though strangely enough an iron tent-peg is not commonly used nowadays, stakes of wood being as serviceable, and none but a large expedition would be burdened with the unnecessary weight of iron pegs.
But he clung to consciousness with all his quivering strength, bewildered, unbelieving still, yet hovering on the edge of conviction. "Is it really you, Bobby?" he whispered. "I can't believe it! Let me look at you! Let me see for myself!" The man beside him made no answer. He had snatched up the first thing he could find, a fragment of a broken tent-peg, to tighten the pressure upon the wound.
"That's right, George," he said, seizing a tent-peg and mallet; "we have plenty to do here, and no time to waste."
Jaimihr and no one but a wizard could have told how he had managed to get to where he was unobserved was riding as a man rides at a tent-peg, crouching low, full-pelt for Rosemary McClean! Cunningham's spurs went home before the word was out of Mahommed Gunga's mouth, and Mahommed Gunga raced behind him; but Jaimihr had the start of them.
These are a few of the pictures, but the last of them had not to do with the past: a dream grown into a fact, shaped by the music, become at once an emotion and a purpose. Iberville had now driven home the first tent-peg of a wonderful adventure. Under the spell of that music his body seemed to grow larger.
'The non-coms tuk Peg Barney a howlin' handful he was an' in three minutes he was pegged out chin down, tight-dhrawn on his stummick, a tent-peg to each arm an' leg, swearin' fit to turn a naygur white. 'I tuk a peg an' jammed ut into his ugly jaw.
The Divil's Mass is ten times worse, an' Peg Barney was singin' ut, whackin' the tent-peg on the head wid his boot for each man that he cursed. A powerful big voice had Peg Barney, an' a hard swearer he was whin sober.
In one of these the lady was to tilt with a billiard-cue at three suspended rings, while the man, carrying a spear and a sword, took a tent-peg with the former, threw the lance away, cut off a Turk's head in wood with the sword, and then took another peg with the same weapon.
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