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1 I'll be back when I have the sardines.
2 Make another turn in the dark and come back and eat them.
3 The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
4 The boy left him there and when he came back the old man was still asleep.
5 When the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was down.
6 The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away.
7 He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water.
8 He held the line against his back and watched its slant in the water and the skiff moving steadily to the North-West.
9 The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man's shoulders.
10 The sun was hot now and the old man felt it on the back of his neck and felt the sweat trickle down his back as he rowed.
11 His line was strong and made for heavy fish and he held it against his back until it was so taut that beads of water were jumping from it.
12 Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull.
13 But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back.
14 The shivering increased as he pulled in and he could see the blue back of the fish in the water and the gold of his sides before he swung him over the side and into the boat.
15 Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it.
16 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
17 The boy was back now with the sardines and the two baits wrapped in a newspaper and they went down the trail to the skiff, feeling the pebbled sand under their feet, and lifted the skiff and slid her into the water.
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