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Menu includes venison, quail, cooter, frog legs and alligator.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015

For example-- De cooter is de boatman-- The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boatman he is.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

The owl is hooting to the night, The cooter crawling o'er the bank, And in that pond the flashing light Tells where the alligator sank.

From Eighth Reader by Baldwin, James

The owl is hooting to the night, The cooter crawling o’er the bank, And in that pond the flashing light Tells where the alligator sank.

From Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader by Manly, Louise

Ripples that spread out from his quiet wake took the sun, and the measured dip of the swimmer's arm was no louder than the whig of the cooter that paddled in the shallows.

From The Trail Book by Austin, Mary Hunter