Ferguson started playing mumblety-peg on his desk top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

It was like the game of mumblety-peg Henley had taught him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollmaker] Reference

We dallied too long at a best-of-seven series of mumblety-peg by the Great Rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stillwater] Reference

He devoted his leisure to complicated games of mumblety-peg with the Rainey boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

Two boys (who might be Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) play mumblety-peg with pocketknives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Politics] Reference

Of course, I don't play mumblety-peg any more, but, on the Moon, it's a right good game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

A boy on an idle Saturday, playing a solitary game of mumblety-peg in the shade of a cottonwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Crossers by Philip Caputo] Reference

He sat in the shade of the wagon all day and taught the two young girls how to play mumblety-peg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

Gus had taught two of the boys to play mumblety-peg. Matilda and Long Bill had taught them simple card games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference

When Dad came into our hotel suite to say we were ready to leave, I was down on the floor, playing mumblety-peg with my kid brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

After lunch I was sitting on top of Bald Hill with Hilliard Wood, Mehetable Hughes, and Ruth Ann Catlin, playing mumblety-peg with my jackknife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stillwater] Reference

He sat in the shade of the wagon all day and taught the two young girls how to play mumblety-peg. Clara looked out at them occasionally from the upper windows—there seemed no harm in the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove] Reference

"Yet you wouldn't pull up the mumblety-peg for me," I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference

"Only we didn't call it stick-knife," said Old Hundred, "we called it mumblety-peg.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference

Though if PK were to make an appearance, a game of mumblety-peg should immediately break out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kissing Suzy Kolber] Reference

So we went outdoors and set down on the grass and played mumblety-peg -- me losing that thousand, natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Next Door] Reference

"Come for a little walk with me," said Roger, "we'll walk down in the grove; it's cool and shady there, and we can play mumblety-peg if you like.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Summer Days] Reference

Cousin Egbert gets this and says, as polite as a stinging lizard, that he stands ready to give her a chance at any game she can think of, from mumblety-peg up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference

Guber tells the story of presenting former President Reagan and former President Mikhail Gorbachev with Tiffany-designed jackknives and reminding them of playing mumblety-peg as boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

In a nutshell: British and U.S. children's picture books tend to show cuddly bunnies having birthday parties, whereas in European picture books you get to see dwarf clowns in bird masks playing mumblety-peg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pound] Reference

"While you're playing mumblety-peg with Mrs. Lym Cass, Pete and me will be rambling across Dakota, through the Bad Lands, into the butte country, and when fall comes, we'll be crossing over a pass of the Big.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

"So, now then, Curly," says he after a while, "since we've finished all our day's work and have a little time left, we can now engage in some simple pastime, such as mumblety-peg, or maybe marbles, till later in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Next Door] Reference

THE next morning I was minding my own business, leaning against Hammy’s locomotive and playing mumblety-peg with a pocketknife, when a woman with long brown hair and high cheekbones appeared at the edge of the birch stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stillwater] Reference

"While you're playing mumblety-peg with Mrs. Lym Cass, Pete and me will be rambling across Dakota, through the Bad Lands, into the butte country, and when fall comes, we'll be crossing over a pass of the Big Horn Mountains, maybe, and camp in a snow-storm, quarter of a mile right straight up above a lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

It was mumblety-peg. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference

This ain’t mumblety-peg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sternberg complaint dismissed - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

“While you’re playing mumblety-peg with Mrs. Lym.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference