Crossword-Solution: WAMPUS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Friends' Seminary--The Principal Chappaqua Residences--Reminiscences of Paris during the War--An Accomplished Lady--Her Voice--Festivities--A Drive to Rye Lake--Making Tea on the Beach--A Sail at Sunset--Fortune-telling by Firelight--The Drive Home--Sunday Morning--A Row on the Pond--Dramatic Representations in the Barn--A Drive to Lake Wampus--Starlight Row CHAPTER XXIII.

Already this evening you have called it a bus, a boat, a kite, a star-hound, a wagon, an aerial flivver, a sky-chariot, a space-eating wampus, and I don't know what else.

Now, the wampus--" "Say, tell us about the whiffletit next," begged one wriggling youngster, plainly allured by the sound of the name.

They put me in a work-day rig, as usually is done-- A wampus and short overalls all sewed up into one.

You've heard, of course, of the Trojan horse; Well, this Dragon is thrice as big, Sir! With the mouth of a hog, or a Pollywog, Or Egyptian Porcupig, Sir! Like the Snapping Turtle he'll hustle and hurtle, And gulp like the Gobbling Grampus; And smite and shock, like the Jabberwock, Or the Chawsome Catta-Wampus! On the river's banks he plays his pranks, An Amphibious Amphisbæna; By the Thames and the Lea his coils you'll see, A-stretch--like a concertina.