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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Str days without a fish the boy"s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao,which is the worst form of unlucky,and the boy had gone at their ordes skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the the flag of permanent defeat.
The old manshads in a fishless desert.
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
“Santiago,”the boy said to hld man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.”“I remember,”the old man said,“I know you did not leave me because you doubted.”
“It was papa made me leave.I am a boy and I must obey him.”
“I know,”the old man said.“ It is quite normal.”
“He errace and then we"ll take the stuff home.”
“Why not?”the old man said.“ Between fishermen.”
They sat on the Terrace and manyey did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their tchered their marlin out and carried them laid full across two planks,with two men staggering at the end of each plank,to the fish house where they on the other side of the cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle,their livers removed, their fins cut off and their hides skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for salting.
When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbor from the shark factory;but today there was only the faint edge of the odor because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
ook me in a boat?”
“Five and you nearly were killed when I brouged lines were and feeling the whole boat shiver and the noise of you clubbing him like chopping a tree down and the sweet blood smell all over me.”
“Can you really remember that or did I just tell it to you?”
“I remember everything from when we first went together.”
The old man looked at him with his sunburned, confident loving eyes.
ucky boat.”
“May I get the sardines?I know where I can get four baits too.”
“I have mine left from today.I put them in salt in the box.”
eshening as when the breeze rises.
“Two,”the boy said.
“Two,”the old man agreed.“ You didn"t steal them?”
“I would,”the boy se knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
“Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current,”he said.
“Where are you going?”the boy asked.
“Far out to e in when the wind shifts.I want to be out before it is light.”
“I"ll try to get him to work far out,”the boy said.“ Then if you hook something truly big we can e to your aid.”
“Heking and get him to e out after dolphin.”
“Are his eyes that bad?”
“But you went turtle-ing for years off the Mosquito Coast and your eyes are good.
“I am a strange old man.”
“But are y”the boy said.“ So I can get the cast and go aftd the wooden box with the coiled,haith the club that washe sail and the heavy lines home as the dew was bad for them and,though he was quite sure no local people would steal from him,the old man thought that a gaff and a harpoon were needless temptations to leave in a boat.
They walked up the road togack was made of the tough bud-shields of the royal palm which are called guano and in it there was a bed,a tablesturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color oftograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.
“What do you have
“Of course.”
Thereof yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too.
“Eighty-five is a lucky number,”the old man said.“ How would you like to see me bring one in that dressed out over a thoussterday"s paper and I will read the baseball.”
Theco gave it to me at the bodega,”he explained.
“I"ll be back when I have the sardines.I"ll keep yoursThe Yankees cannot lose.”
“But I fear the I Detroit and the Indians of Cleveland.
“Be careful or you will fear even the Reds of Cincinnati and the White Sox of Chicago.”
“You study it and tell me when I e back.”
“Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five?Tomorrow s bor“Keep warm old man,”the boy said.“ Remember we are in September.”
“The month when the great fish e,”the old man said.“ Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“I go now for the sardines,”the boy said.
When the boy camerd the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show sosail ame back the old man was still asleep.
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