Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — Digging for Fish. [ARTICLE]

Digging for Fish.

The natives of Kottiar are in the habit of digging every year, in the summer, the dry banks of the Vergel river for fish, which they dig out by h undreds, just as they would potatoes. The mud lumps are broken open, and the fish, perhaps eight or ten inches long, will always be found alive, and often frisky, as if just removed from its supposedly native element—the water. A kind of mud fish buries itself whilst the bottom is still moist, and remains there all the summer, waking up when the rains commence again.