Crayfish

Sally picked her way slowly through the swamp, peering cautiously beyond each fallen log before venturing a further step.

Crawfish scuttled backward from her path to slip down the mud chimneys of their homes.

The black earth and decaying plants filled the hot, still air with noisome odors.

Thousands of hidden insects sounded through the dank stretches their grating calls.

A Crawdad Conundrum, a true story by Daryl Ratajack.

Their wide-eyed, slack-jawed, teary-eyed stare told the story.

They were faced with a difficult decision that was about to teach them a life lesson about life itself.

My boys and I spent the better part of the morning walking along a clear, cold-running creek in western New York.

Of course, those elusive ones that skirted the cup and brushed his hand or his foot caused him to start quite a bit, but I didn't care.

The smile on his face and giggle in his voice assured me he was in no danger whatsoever.

Ryan, my six-year-old, was a totally different story.

He was trying to rewrite my age-old crawdad catching instructions.

The Fables of Bidpai by Anonymous, translated by Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffa and Joseph Harris.

Section nineteen, The Crane and the Crawfish.

Fable eleven, The Crane and the Crawfish.

A crane had once settled her habitation by the side of a broad and deep lake and lived upon such fish as she could catch in it.

These she got in plenty enough for many years, but at length, having become old and feeble, she could fish no longer.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Jonathan Gary, The Fables of Pilpay by Anonymous, translated by Abu Dala ibn al-Muqaffa and Joseph Harris.

Fable 23, The Frog, the Crawfish, and the Serpent.

Howdy, y'all.

This is Mudbug.

I want to welcome you back to Mudbug's Killin' and Grillin', the only cooking show where we don't ask where the meat came from.

We just ask, how long has it been laying there? Now, today's episode is a little different because apparently I'm supposed to make a public statement about what happened over at the Knott Ranch on Saturday night.

Not Johnny Cash.

Worcestershire sauce.

That's how I say it anyway.

A little hot sauce and about half a cup of Mudbug's special sauce.

Thanks for listening.

Again, my name is Byron, and today's show is going to be all about crayfish.

Crayfish.

Okay, so I see them all the time, and I wonder about them all the time.

I think about them a lot.

Okay, we're just gonna start because that's, that's the best way to start.

Okay.

Crayfish, right? You may have seen them before.

HOWEVER, AT LAST, THEY BECAME RECONCILED.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin The Raccoon and the Crawfish Sharp and cunning is the raccoon, say the Indians, by whom he is named Spotted Face.

A crawfish one evening wandered along a river bank, looking for something dead to feast upon.

A raccoon was also out looking for something to eat.

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The Raccoon and the Crawfish.

Sharp and cunning is the raccoon, say the Indians, by whom he is named Spotted Face.

A crawfish one evening wandered along a riverbank, looking for something dead to feast upon.

At the time, the Port of New Orleans was world-famous for two things, a prostitute who could catch a bullet with her labia named Bullet Bertha and her labia lasso, and their wildly unpopular and unseasoned vegan cuisine.

A. Arnold "Arnie" Arbuckle opened his first New Orleans restaurant in 1785, Arbuckle's Mudbugs and Meats, and it was not the smash he had intended.

Most New Orleanians, the preferred nomenclature for locals, did not approve of Arbuckle's uppity attitude and the vape cloud that inevitably encircled his fedora.

Arbuckle's Mudbugs and Meats was as dead as Huey P.

Long, the mayor of New Orleans, also known as the Fat Fish, who was famously gunned down in a New Orleans Popeyes in 1987.

A. Arnold had to start over.