"Oy, Smush," Mogey called, catching his pal clambering out of the aboveground pool in the back yard. "I've got a great new game for us to play."
"Sensational!" Smush exclaimed as he extracted several small rock crabs from his unruly mane of hair. "What's the game?"
"It's called mumblety-peg," Mogey replied. "And apparently it's a hoot and a three quarters. You take this jack-knife, see? And you have to throw it into the ground as hard as you can, with the goal of landing it as close to your foot as possible."
"I see," Smush said, nodding sagely. "And what do you get, supposing you win the game?"
"Well," Mogey answered. "Supposing you throw the knife closer in than I do -- without stabbing your foot of course --."
"Of course," Smush reiterated.
"If you do that, then your prize is pretty special," Mogey continued. "You win the privilege of playing another game of mumblety-peg!"
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