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Life in Ranks 259: ‘That young looty walla (thief in grain) of yours has made off with the buckra, and mark my words well, sirrah, if I do not find him here on my return from shooting, I’ll give him cherry-merry bamboo,’ (a severe beating with a stick).at cherry-merry bamboo (n.) under cherry-merry, n.