He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone
eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
In the first forty days a boy had been
with him.
But after forty days without a fish the boy s parents had told him that
the old...
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone
eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
In the first forty days a boy had been
with him.
But after forty 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 orders in another boat which caught three
good fish the first week.
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It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he
always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon
and the sail that was furled around the mast.
The sail was patched with flour sacks
and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
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