When the flood which had spread over a northern Missouri bottom subsided the other day a farmer ventured to wade back to his home, which had been in the water and still had a foot of water over the floor. Going into the kitchen, he saw a big catfish floundering about, and it was only necessary to close the kitchen door to catch the fish. We don’t expect anybody to believe this story. In fact, we don’t believe it ourselves. We happened to read it in a weekly paper up where the floods are, and we print it just to show what liars some folks can be.

From— Ripley County Democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.), 24 Sept. 1915. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.