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...Amy's deceased father wanders aimlessly in her dreams. She is determined to catch a magical catfish she believes will help her Daddy. This book is set in rural Arkansas in the mid 1960s. It is intended for late Middle Grade readers....

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...ht.” “There, you see, Morgan. And what better judge of talent that Billy ‘Catfish’ Jonas? I signed Billy as our director.” Morgan stuck her ha... ...g Jonas, I fabricated a story about my days in the belly of a fish, a giant catfish. All the degradations of humankind floated by me in that belly.”... ...roaned. No one noticed. Billy continued, slipping into character. “Dat catfish done swallered de sins o’ de world. And dere I wuz swimmin’ in ... ... swimmin’ in dat slimey soup o’ squalor and Gomorrah. I be swimmin’ in ol’ Catfish and ol’ Catfish, he be swimmin’ in de muck and de mud o’ de Missi...

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...r with a narcissist? An offer you can't understand." "What is the difference between a catfish and a narcissist? One's a bottom-crawling scum sucke...

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...at Pierce is looking for another security company, and Taranto will bite like a catfish." "What if your assumptions are wrong?" "You know my instin...

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...l as the chicken coop, but would slink off, tail tucked in and fierceness forgotten. We were checking the big pile of rocks where I knew Old Uncle Catfish hid out, when the bell started ringing behind us, clanging and clattering like this was the last day. "C'mon, Jonesie, we got to save 'em!" We went barreling back the way we'd come, up the crick's dry dirt crumbly...

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...ople like me and Jim, he’d just as soon have intellectual intercourse with a catfish. But anybody can say that — and I notice they always do, when som...

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...he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking ques tions. We got five catfish off the lines and went home. While we laid off after breakfast to... ...lankets to put my things under so the rain couldn’t get at them. I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started ... ..., because he reckoned it was all done with witchcraft. I catched a good big catfish, too, and Jim cleaned him with his knife, and fried him. When bre... ...as to bait one of the big hooks with a skinned rabbit and set it and catch a catfish that was as big as a man, being six foot two inches long, and we...

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... A value, though marred in the matter of statistics by inaccuracies; for the catfish is a plenty good enough fish for anybody, and there are no panthe... ...ay, of the Middle T emple, Barrister at Law, with a better digestion, and no catfish din ner aboard, and feels as follows— “The Mississippi! It was w... ... negro; and that they cannot do, for his carcass has fed many a tortoise and catfish before this time, and the frogs have sung this many a long day to... ...mercial gran deur; the daily packet usually landed a passenger and bought a catfish, and took away another passenger and a hatful of freight; but now...

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...y were back again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun perch and a small catfish — provisions enough for quite a family. They fried the fish with ...

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...f the veteran exercises of that adventure bristling trade through catching catfish with a “trot line” Sundays. But the surmise is damaged by the fact ...

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... practice, revolver practice — and not a solitary word of it all could these catfish make head or tail of, you understand — and it was handsome to see...