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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. 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. The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory 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. Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its eflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. Please try again later as the restrictions may be lifted, or contact your service provider if the issue persists.
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The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. The sail was patched with Hour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. NOTE: other restrictions can be a result of our security platform detecting potential malicious activity. The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
