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Show A TRUE FISH STORY. It Is a Connecticut Product and Reiates to a Lost Bracelet and an Eel. Savilian Beebe of this place made a big haul with his eel spear a few days ago. Last July among the people who sojourned at Essex was a wealthy Cincinnati Cin-cinnati family. A young lady member of this family went out boat riding one evening, and during the trip she lost a valuable bracelet from her arm. The bracelet was in the form of a gold chain that fastened with a hook. The i young lady was very much distressed over the loss of the ornament, and she offered a reward of $ 20 for its recovery. recov-ery. Fishermen searched the river bottom bot-tom for it in vain. A few days ago Beebe, who usually makes about two eeling trips to tho Connecticut Con-necticut river during the winter, hitched hitch-ed up his horse and drove down. The ice was rather thin on the old eeline ground, and iieebe was ooiigect to go about a mile up the river to Brock way 'a bend. Here the ice was soft, and Beebe began work. He worked all day like a beaver aad succeeded in getting but one very small eel. The next morning he decided to have fried eel for breakfast anyhow. He took the eel down from tho nail on the side of the house, where he had hung it the night before. It was frozen as stiff as a marline spike, but he took it out into th6 woodshed, and in less than a minute he had its hide off. He then ran his knife into the eel's throat and shoed it toward its tail. Whenabouthalf way down, the point of the knife struck something that refused I to he cut in two. He slashed into the eel's middle. To his astonishment, a long metal chain, an bright as if new, lay lengthwise of the stomach. He showe1 the chain to his wife. Mrs. Beebe took the thing and examined exam-ined it. On th heel of the clasp the name of the yourg woman who lost the bracelet la.st simmer was engraved. The circumstances nf the lost bracelet were known to the people of Salem, and after breakfast Savilmn hitched up his horse and headed for Essex, where he delivered the bracelet to the people with whom the Cincinnati family boarded and received the $20 reward. Salem (Conn.) Special. |