Lexington (CV 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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MUMBLETY-PEG-THE NUMBER ONE SPARE TIME DECKQXCTIVITY The men, in small groups, are sprawled around the deck, some choose the hot sun on the open deck, others parli themselves in the shade of a plane's wing 3 they pillow up for each other in a fine earthy fellowship, reminiscent of colts resting under a tree or alongside the fence of a pasture, the head of one colt draped over the neck of another, or again, something in the manner of a litter of puppies, all curled up over, under, and about each other. During easy-going days and hours like these, the battle reports we receive from active combat areas seem as unreal and as remote as they seem to most people who live heyond the reach of the enemy's instruments of war. 58

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