Pearl's Stories:

What was I to use? I didn't have a fishing pole, line and hook and of course no bait. But I went down to the water's edge, and then I saw a gunney sack on the ground. Why not a sack? I thought. Going into the water, I stood and held the gunney sack open in the water as the cars crossed the bridge overhead. The fish were travelling in groups, and a group of a dozen or so bullheads and perch swam right in! I had a sack full of fish!

I would have stood there and caught another sackful, but Papa couldn't wait for that, and we had to go with the one sack of fish I had caught. The bullheads we skinned and threw in the pan and fried, and they were easy to eat, as they had few bones. But the perch! They were a lot tastier than bullheads, but full of bones and hard to eat.