lide ia. a. marsh down behlM by bouse. I had .started to dote when. I felt an awful- -tug. on my pole. I ■gays a; yank.' There on my hook was what appeared to he the old man of -the sea himself—a fish with a long-flowing heard,.. In my excitement, T dropped my pole and the fish disappeared in the marsh. It was about three feet long and. its beard was about eight inches long.”' -