Mumbly Peg.
I played Mumbly Peg when I was a kid. We used to use those big fat black Boy Scout knives with several utility blades as well as a small blade and a large blade. Not really good for balance or throwin'. They called it mumbly peg because of what you talked like when a knife went a bit awry and hit you in the mouth, or you got hit in the leg and got gangarene and you wound up with........you got it ....a peg leg.
When we got a bit older, we started looking for the bigger Buck knives with only one long blade. They were pretty sharp too. Better balance for throwing. Didn't feel much when it sliced the skin between your toes, till later any way. We also used to lay your hand down splay out your fingers and stab between them. They guy who could do it the fastest before drawing blood, won.
A variation on knives was to take an old broom stick, cut the head off'n a 10 penny nail and drive it into the broom stick. Sharpen it up and it made a good frog sticker or a replacement for a knife for mumbly peg. Spear instead of knife. We would get nekkid or wear a loin cloth made out of rags. Great childhood. Had a creek and a river nearby as well as the huge rail yard with the old giant steam engines....Sigh...We used to shoot rabbits and pheasants and squirrels with our shotguns when we were about 12 or so. cook em over a fire.
People today are wimps. Especially the socialists that want to make everything safe and warm and fuzzy. Without danger, were is the excitement of life? That's why all these kids are doing these terrible crimes. They have no dangerous outlet to experience growing up. It civilizes kids to be in a dangerous life. Some don't make it. Too bad.
I'm feeling a wave of nostalgia. I'll shut up now.
