A Day in the Ma’sh – Low Tide
'Low Tide', from "A Day in the Ma'sh," by Maurice F. Egan, Scribner's Monthly, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 1881, pp. 343-352.
Another of the “swamp residences” in the Ma’sh: “… you almost expect to see Pomona come forth in a love-lorn reverie, with a weekly paper in her hand, to wait for high tide…”