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"Catfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... of those Western Mississippi River catfish stories, in which they use yearling calves for ...

— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... said Ump, "we'd a been heels up in the slime of the Valley with the catfish playin' pussy-in-the-corner around ...

— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post

... boys came back they brought three little sunfish, two perch, and one funny-looking fish with horns, which Frank said was a catfish. ...

— Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) • Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm

... in the lake region of the Agsan Valley and in rivers which are too deep for other methods, especially during floods, when the fish roam around over the inundated land. It is ordinarily not attended with great success, three or four fish being an average day's catch. The common catfish, called dalg in Manila, is the ordinary victim, other species being rare victims ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... sometimes shut his eyes and stood on the bottom, just keeping the end of his trunk out of the water. One day he was obliged to kneel on the broad back of an alligator who tried to bite off his foot. He drove the long body down into the muddy bottom, and no living creature, except possibly the catfish that burrow in the mud, ever ...

— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

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