Surely somebody is posting here and pretending to be Spaw. that doesn't sound like spaw at all. And who's Wayne?
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John in Kansas. I think the mudcat was invented by the same people who gave us the chicken hawk, a bird not to be found in any bird book.


Her husband comes to see her dressed in ragged clothes
with a runny nose and fifth a wine
and a bucket full of bullheads he had caught that day
on Monona bay with a hand-held line...

the Berrymans, or should I say Berrymen? "Vegetables"

Evidently it is particularly opprobrious to use a hand-held line.