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1 "I remember," the old man said.
2 In the first forty days a boy had been with him.
3 Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad.
4 The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
5 The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
6 "Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up.
7 The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
8 They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry.
9 Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
10 The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
16 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.
17 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.
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