The Adventures of Catfish Annie

By Kenneth Osborn

Spunky eleven-year-old Catfish Annie travels with her grandfather on a houseboat, hauling freight up and down the Mississippi River in the late 1940s. Fishing in the river, helping with the work, and meeting interesting people are all activities that fill Annie's days and teach her many important lessons. Each brief thought-provoking story reveals her grandpa's example of hard work, generosity, honesty, and kindness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sword of the Lord Foundation
• Release date: Aug 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310492280

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The Adventures of Catfish Annie

Kenneth Osborn

P. O. Box 1099 • Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37133

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www.SwordoftheLord.com

Copyright 2013 by

Sword of the Lord Publishers

Digitally remastered and cover design by

Dustin Lippert

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (printed, written, photocopied, electronic, audio or otherwise) without prior written permission of the publisher.

All Scripture quotations are from the King James Bible.

CONTENTS

Welcome to Safe Harbor

Trouble for Catfish

A Good Testimony

Biscuits for Grandpa

Fair Trade

Giving

Helping Others

Temptations

The Man in the Gray Suit

The Sermon

Dedicated to:

My children and grandchildren.

May they use the lessons from

these stories to bring glory

to their Lord and honor

to their mothers.

Chapter 1—Welcome to Safe Harbor

"Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure,

and whether it be right."—Proverbs 20:11.

Things were really beginning to bustle in the sleepy town of Safe Harbor, Illinois. Winter was over, spring was here, and the whole countryside was busy. Farmers were plowing their fields, others were planting gardens, and it seemed like everyone was planting flowers. Safe Harbor was so called because it was on high ground, far above the mighty Mississippi River. When spring floods came, Safe Harbor was a very good place to be, and many wonderful people lived here.

Annie Philips and her grandfather, Henry, were two of those people. Annie came to live with her grandpa when she was five years old. Her parents, John and Marion Philips, were killed in a car accident. Annie was their only child, and so she came to live with her grandfather. Grandmother Philips had passed away a few years earlier, and Grandpa was pretty lonely until Annie came to live with him. Some folks thought she should live with her