Excerpt from: The Catching of Unshelled Fish
Olive Green (Myrtle Reed)

And for what? For one small bass which could have been bought at any trustworthy market for sixty-five cents, or, possibly, some poor little kitten-fish-offspring of a catfish—whose mother's milk is not yet dry upon its lips.
To what is the author referring when she refers to a "kitten-fish-offspring" in paragraph 2?
A) a muskie
Eliminate
B) a small bass
C) a young catfish
D) fish bought at a market