Eels used to be caught there on the moonlight nights by old labourers with a taste for sport, and the quaint little river Cray-fish may be picked out of the banks of the "water-carriages."
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Doctor Cray does no good.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
Some small Cray-fishes, too, delighted her with their retrograde and side-wise movements among the variegated pebbles at the bottom of the water.
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson