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The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway

It was early morning, almost cherry. The sun had not yet risen and there was a steady sea breeze that came off the Gulf and went on by way of the sugar factory and the snakehole alley and the empty lots where they would not seed that year and by the garbage dump and the school and out through the gate by the harbor and so back to Cuba over the road of shining water to where he was.

The old man leaned on his oar, watching the fish. It was a good big fish. He could see its big, silver belly, as it came up to feed in the dawn, and he watched it with great interest, with more than human interest. He watched it because it was so big and also because it was a fish and he had never seen one of them before. Also he was hungry.

「This is a good day,」 he said. 「I can feel it is a good day.」

He looked at the fish as it came up. It had been all night with its mouth open above the bottom and its face in the sand and it had fed when it felt the motion of the oars of the boat or when there was the taste of blood in the water and also when he threw the poor shark line into it after he had harpooned the shark. The fish had fought all night and now in the morning it was still fighting although there was no strength in its movements and it was a long way out of reach of his oars.

He watched it, feeling glad that it was a fish and not a marlin that he had caught, because a marlin does not break a harpoon at all unless it is hit very hard and if it is hit hard it will break the bone of your arm. Also it takes three men to catch a marlin.

He said: 「You are going to die. All fish do.」 And this pleased him a lot because everything is coming true.

Now you must learn to handle this thing right or you will never eat any more of them, he said to himself. I wish I could see him now for a while. But then I would have to kill him.

I have no nails and I have only one small loaf of bread that I bought for a cent with some last money we had and some wine in my cabin which is sour like old grapes which is very good for taking away thirst if one does not drink too much of it, said he. But now is better than later for that because if I fail now I will not try again. He unfastened the piece of bait from around his harpoon and threw it out for the fish to take or to see. Then he settled himself to a long wait if there was to be any.

The sun rose very slowly and finally began to beat down on his head. It was some while before he could get used to being still and hot in the boat in this fashion, but he managed it so well that after a while he got up from time to time and walked along the sloping shade of the boat to see how much bait was left on the end of the line, or to rub sand on his face or hands where there was sand stuck in the dry salt flaking off the fish. But mostly he lay down in the shade of his sail with his hands on his stomach and stared at the sky and at the fish swimming at the end of the line, or else he dozed sitting up with his head leaned back against one of the menaced seats of the boat.

「He is asleep,」 they would say. And this was true enough, but he could hear what they said, as well as see it all, so that it would seem less trouble to be asleep than awake at times like these; although once or twice when he dozed with his head back against one of the rotten seats and dreamed himself at home on his bed in his house by the harbour where he lived alone, he woke up with a jump when he felt himself being pulled back into the boat by something sharp that tore at his pants pocket where he had his only piece of paper money which was all he had in the world except for what they paid him each month out of what they took from all over for what they sold in their store which was full of things like nails and bolts and scrap iron like old tin cans which they got for nothing from people who did not want them any longer. He woke up with a jump and saw that they were going to kill him after all because they had taken all they could get from him for so long without killing him, and then there was only this one thing which was almost nothing.

But there was no one there now except for himself and him only a man and there was no one to do anything about it if they

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