 We learn that it stands for "dot-and-carry-one," which is a reference to Cargunka's irregular gait.He is five feet, two inches tall, very muscular, and has one short leg and thus is slightly lame – in the same leg, as he is fond of pointing out, as the poet Byron.Cargunka curls his hair to try to look like the handsome Byron, and has aspirations to write poetry himself, although the bits of doggerel he produces in the stories indicate he is not in Byron's league.