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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 nish the
first week. 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.
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back
of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun
brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The
blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the
deep-creasedscars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of
these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the
same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
"Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from
where the skiff was hauled up. "I could go with you again. We've made
some money."
The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
"No," the old man said. "You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them."
"But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and
then we caught big ones every day for three weeks."
"I remember," the old man said. "I know you did not leave me
because you doubted." EXPLANATION​

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