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1 There was nothing ever like them.
2 I do not like for him to waken me.
3 But what a fish to pull like that.
4 "Stay at my house if you like, bird," he said.
5 "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said.
6 They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy.
7 But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
8 He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it.
9 The line showed like a phosphorescent streak in the water straight out from his shoulders.
10 The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
11 He knew he would need his hands before this was over and he did not like to be cut before it started.
12 The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it.
13 His shirt had been patched so many times that it was like the sail and the patches were faded to many different shades by the sun.
14 He could not see the green of the shore now but only the tops of the blue hills that showed white as though they were snow-capped and the clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them.
15 From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted.
16 The boy had given him two fresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before; but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness.
17 When the old man had gaffed her and clubbed her, holding the rapier bill with its sandpaper edge and clubbing her across the top of her head until her colour turned to a colour almost like the backing of mirrors, and then, with the boy's aid, hoisted her aboard, the male fish had stayed by the side of the boat.
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