At the Christmas dinner Pip "was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had least reason to be vain."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
At Villiers as at Charly, it was the garde champetre who was charged with this solemn mission, and the old man made a most pathetic figure as he stood there with his drumsticks in his hand, his spectacles pushed back, and the perspiration rolling down his tanned and withered cheeks.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
To-night at dinner some officers came in when the food was pretty well finished, and only some drumsticks of chicken and bits of ham were left.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan