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"But," sez I, "they say they do it for the sake of religion." "Religion hain't to be found in drum-sticks," sez he bitterly. "No," sez I, "nor in a bell clapper." "Oh," sez he, "that is a different thing entirely, that is to call worshippers together, that is necessary." Sez I, "One hain't no more necessary than the other in my opinion."
"But," sez I, "they say they do it for the sake of religion." "Religion hain't to be found in drum-sticks," sez he bitterly. "No," sez I, "nor in a bell clapper." "Oh," sez he, "that is a different thing entirely, that is to call worshippers together, that is necessary." Sez I, "One hain't no more necessary than the other in my opinion."
"That's a little bit o better, ain't it?" chirped the Cockney, and skipping over the fallen man, he was at the Parson's side, in the thick and fury of it, bringing down his drum-sticks to the battle-cry of, "Ow's that-a-tat-tat? ow's that?" The old man and the boys watched from the cottage. The door was ajar. They huddled behind it, peering. Beside them lay the table, a musket across it.
It was not by any relative of his that the drum-sticks of honour had been won; and his thoughts, after wandering a little, evidently settled down upon the strictly personal fact that his thin old legs were cold.
He ran over sticks, stones and ditches; he lost drum-sticks, sabre, bow, and air-pistol, and in his terrible hurry he tripped over a tuft of grass. There he lay, and the wolf jumped on to him.... It was a gruesome tale! Now you may well believe that it was all over with Walter and all his adventures. That would have been a pity.
Like E. gibbosus, it does best when grafted on to another kind. We have seen perfect "drum-sticks" formed by grafting a full-grown plant of this on the stem of a Cereus. Stem globose, usually flattened on the top, and divided into eight or nine large ribs or ridges, grey-green in colour.
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