Gungawamp Advice

Ef you’re eatin’ shad or elwhops

     Ez shad an’ elwhops go

Don’t try to take your shirt off

     For least a week or so.

c. April 10, ‘10

elwhop – ‘alewhop’ or ‘ale-whop’, a colloquial variation of ‘alewife’, an extremely bony relative of the equally bony shad.

                                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alewife