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An ex-soldier speaking of colonel of his former unit: " "Ye say Dhrumshticks is well, an' his lady tu'? I niver knew how I liked the gray garron till I was shut av him an' Asia." - "Dhrumshticks" was the nickname of the Colonel commanding Mulvaney's old regiment."
garron ['gærən] noun a small sturdy pony bred and used chiefly in Scotland and Ireland [ETYMOLOGY: 16th Century: from Gaelic gearran]
I'll bet he would not have called the Colonel that to his face!
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Interesting. I wonder if the drumsticks nickname was from the vegetable known as drumstick and quite the staple in South Indian in delicious sambars. It looks like a drumstick, kind of a long okra pod. Very nutritious.
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