(re-post)
I am beginning to wonder if my mother made up this game: no one I've asked, here on the west coast of Canada, or friends my age back in southern Ontario where I grew up, have ever heard of it.
Simple and fun. We put the empty milk bottle on the floor, stood in front of it, held a wooden clothes peg at waist level, took aim, dropped the peg and hoped it went into the bottle.
I am sure I objected to the fact that my brother, being three years younger, had a waist closer to the top of the bottle so a better chance of getting the pegs in. He says he thinks he held them at eye level. Yeah, right.
A glass bottle at a garage sale and the clothes pegs which were a gift from a friend on a trip to France (people know what I like!) brought the memory and inspired the recreation. I thought 'characters' would make it even more fun.
Will have to ask if my sons recall playing it when they were young. Will have to introduce it to the GrandKid whose waist, at the moment, is definitely winner height.