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Some Pegs for Emergencies 101
seeing this farm adjacent to the river, they would look like
the #14. You can then use either farm or river, or both,
to represent the number.
I pictured myself stepping into an elevator and saying,
"Fifteenth floor, please," for #15. I now use elevator to
represent the number. For #16, I pictured a road sign that
said, "Route 16."
I have used this list for years, to help me memorize six-
teen objects. There is no reason for you to stop at sixteen.
You can use the same idea to bring the list up to twenty, or
higher if you like. No thought or picture is too far fetched,
if it suggests a certain number to you, then it will serve the
purpose. Just get your imagination working.
Anyway, here is the list as I've used it, up to #16:—

1 — pencil 9 — tape measure
2 — swan 10 — bat and/or ball
3 — clover 11 — spaghetti
4 — table 12 — clock
5 — star 13 — black cat (or ladder)
6 — yo-yo 14 — farm (or river)
7 — golf club 15 — elevator
8 — hourglass 16 — sign

There are other ideas which I could list; but I won't. If
you need any more lists, you can use your imagination to
help you form them. I'm sure you realize that the phonetic
alphabet, and the letter or number equivalent method
taught in this book, is far superior to any of the methods
mentioned in this chapter. Your basic list of peg words can
be brought up to a thousand, or over, if you wanted to, and
the beauty of it is that as soon as you heard one of them,
the sounds in the word would tell you immediately which
number it represented. The phonetic alphabet makes it
possible for peg words to be at your fingertips for any num-