cholly-wampus

Updated: May 1, 2025

I also had the pneumonia, and de bronchitis, and de measles, and de small-pox, and the cholly-wampus all at the same time. Do you wonder dat I groaned?" "I shouldn't think you could groan at all, if you had so many diseases as that." "Dar's war my toughness and wrastling powers show themselves. I just wrastled and wrastled, and I frowed 'em all."

Edward Sylvester Ellis - Brave Tom: The Battle That Won