It is of no interest to any one that I had great numbers of peg-tops and marbles, or learnt to be a pretty good swimmer in the Ouse.

I've chopped cotton and picked cotton with this peg-leg.

You are, when all is done, not even detestable, not even a worthy peg whereon to hang denunciatory sonnets, you shallow-pated pretty creatures whom poetsoh, and in youth all men are poets!whom poets, now and always, are doomed to hanker after to the detriment of their poesy.

They found the peg-print in the snow, but with it, or just ahead, was another, the tracks of a smaller Bear.

~Praise of a Rabbit-Catcher~ Careful he sets his rabbit-nets all round; Chang-chang his blows upon the pegs resound.

" "There is a clothes-peg sticking into the back of my head," remarked Mr. Travers.

" He glanced round; saw that there was really no other vacant; swept off the bag and coat with his own hands; hung them on a peg overhead; dropped back into his former attitude, and went on reading.

" "And what are they for?" "Well, you see, peg number one goes in here, where I have picked a hole between the stones.