I found it out one day when I got some apple butter on the governor giving him a bite of my bread, and put him in the wash bowl to soak.

He was two and a half inches tall; but the minute you stood him in water he went down to about half that height and spread out to twice his size around.

You should have heard Mr.Pryor.
"If you will lie on the bank and watch you'll have more to laugh at than that," I promised.
He lay down and never paid the least attention to his clothes.

Pretty soon a little chub fish came swimming around to make friends with Governor Oglesby, and then a shiner and some more chub.

They nibbled at his hands and toes, and then went flashing away, and from under the stone came backing a big crayfish and seized the governor by the leg and started dragging him, so I had to jump in and stop it.