Scrumpy
Character
Somerset dipsomaniac. Cider, profanity and the fatal disadvantage of having drawn number 37.
Appears in
From the books (1 passage)
…two further victims be selected, these being numbers 37 and 41, the Spartacist noms de guerre of, respectively, Scrumpy the Somerset dipsomaniac and Enematopoeia the former handmaiden to Mr Illingworth the colonist. I must say, this set {Boisselier, Scrumpy, Enematopoiea} formed a somewhat incongruous trio, although I did imagine that the last named might ceteris paribus have been induced to transfer her affections from Rodolfo Mather-Steiner, for whom she in…