armonium

Updated: May 15, 2025

I turned regretfully round to the color-sergeant, winked solemnly and officially, and seeing an answering but respectful quiver in his left eyelid, said: "Color-sergeant." "Sir?" "Which do you think is the best way of setting alight to a farm?" "Well, sir, some prefer the large bedstead and straw, but I think the 'armonium and a little kerosene in one corner is as neat as anything."

Ernest Dunlop Swinton - The Defence of Duffer's Drift