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His choice had been to stay in the deep to help either one of us.
mber to eat the tuna after it gets light.
Some time beforee strain of the fish on his left shoulder heait he had severed and the two from the bait the fish had taken and they were all connected.
After it is light,he thought,I will work back to the fortydoelt him.I had to get rid of him too fast.
Aloud he said“, I wish line now,in the dark or not in the dark,and cut td dried before it reached his chin andame across a new part of his shoulders and,holding it anchored with his shoulders,he carefully felt the pull of the fish and then felt with his hand the progress of the skiff through thess.Now everything is cleared away that might make trouble and I have a big reserve of line;all that a man can ask.
“Fish,”he said softly,aloud,“I"ll stay with you until I am dead.”
He"ll stay with me too,It it was on the old manase the tensks along his backbone with air and then he cannot go deep to die.
He tried to increase the tension,but the line had been taut up to the very edge of the breaking point since he had hooked the fish and he felt the harshness as he leaned back to pull and knew he couo look into it.
There was yellow weed on the line but thence in the night.
hope so,he tho could see that he was very tired.
where he was more fortable.
“How old are you?”the old man asked the bird.“ Is this as his delicate feet gripped it fast.
ds ing to?”
d him anyway and who would learn about the hawks soon enough.
“Take a good rest,small bird,”he said.“ Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”
It encouraged him to talk because his back had stiffened in the night and it hurt truly now.
“Stay at my house if you like,bird,”he said.“ I am sorry I cannot hoistn lurch that pulled the old man down onto the bow and would have pulled him overboard if he had not braced himself and given some line.
The bird had flown uphand was bleeding .
“Something hurt him then,”he said aloudsettled back against the s.INow I will pay attention to my work and then I must eat the tuna so that I will not have a failure of strength.
“I wish the boy were here and that I had some salt,”he said aloud.
Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged , for more than a minute watching the blood trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.
“He has slowed much,”he said.
The old man would have liked to keep his hand in the salt water longer but he was afraid of another sudden lurch by the fish and he ste not like to be cut before it started.
“Now,”he said,when his hand had dried,“I must eat the small tuna.I can reach him with the gaff and eat him here in fort.”
He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gas left hand and arm,he e bow,wiped his knife on his trousers, and lifted the carcass of the bonito by the tail and dropped it overboard.
“I don"t think I can eat an eduest as stiff as rigor mortis.“ I"ll eat some more for you.”
does it go,hand?Or is it too early to know?”
He took another full piece and c. This is hardly sweet at all and all the strength is still in it.”
There rot or dry whe ready.
“Be patient,hand,”he said“, I do Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish.
He straighnow what the fish is going to do.”
will stay down with him forever.
He rubbed the cratIl I abused it much in the night when it is necessary to free and unite the various lines.
d ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water,then blurring,then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
He thought of how some men feared being out of sight of land in a small boatricanes,the weather of hurricane months is the best of all the year.
If there is a hurricane you always s But we have no hurricane ing now.
He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus was still cramped,buthers toespecially when one is alone.
If the boy were here he couldthe difference in theard and fast against his thigh he saw thesteadily and then the surfas bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in theer and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it,smoothly,like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line menced to race out.
re the fish could take out all the line and break it.
f;although they are more nofish that he had ever seen and bigger than he had ever heard of,and his left hand was still as tight as the gripped slowed again and was going at his w,aman than I am and I will be so.I wish I was the fish,he thought,with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.
He settled fortably against the wood and took his suffering as it came and the fish ast and at noon the old man"s left hand was uncramped.
“Bad news for you fish,”he said and shifted the line over the sacks that covered his shoulders.
He was fortable but suffering,although he did not add catch this fish,and I promprayer and then Wonderful though he is.”
With his prayers said, and feeling much better, but suffering exactly as much,and perhaps a little more,he leaned against the wood of the bow and began,mechanically,to work the fingers of his left hand.
The sun was hot now although the breeze was rising gently.
“I had better re-bait that little line out over the stern,”he said.“ If the fish decides to stay another night I will need to eat again and the water is low in to eat raw and I
“I told the boy I was a strange old man,”he said.“ Now is when I must prove it.”
ever thought about the past when he was doing it.
I wish he"d
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