“He could whip his weight in wildcats.”

—  Eugene Field , A Little Book of Western Verse

Modjesky as Cameel http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/westernandotherverse/modjeskyascameel.html, st. 10
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

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