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The odds would change back an fourth all night
and they fed the negro rum and lighted cicigarettes for him
Then the negro after the rum would try for tremendous effort
and once he had the old man who was not an old man
Then but was santiaggo
El campiion nearthree inches of balance
But the old man had raised his hand up to dead
even again he was sure
Then that he had the negro who was a fine man and a great athlete beaten and at daylight
When the bettors were asking that it be called a draw
and the referee was shaking his head
He had unleashed his effort and forced the hand of the negro down and down
until it rested on the wood
The match had started on a sunday morning and ended on a monday morning
Many of the bettors had asked for a draw
Because they had to go to work on the dogs loading sacks of sugar or at the havanancocoal
Otherwise
everyone would have wanted it to go to a finish
Bet he had fonished it anyway
And before anyone had to go to work for a long time
after that everyone had called him the champion
and there had been a return match in the spring
But not much money was bt
and he had won it quite easily
Since he had brokon the confedince af the negro from cn foogoes en the first match
After that he had a few matches
and then no more he decided that he could be anyone if he wanted to badly enough
and he decided that it was bad for his right hand for fishing
He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand
But his left hand had always been a traitor
and would not do what he called on it to do
and he did not trust it
The sun will baak it out
Well now he thought it should not cramp on me again
unless
it gets too cold in the night
I wonder what this night will bring an airplane passed overhead on its caused of miami
And ha watched its shedow scering op the scheols of flyang fish wath so much flying fish there shoold be darphin
He said and leaned back on the line to see
if it was possible to gain any of his fish
Bat he could nat
and it stayed at the hardness and water drop shivering that preceded breaking the boat moved ahead slowly
and he watched the airplane
until he could no longer see it
It must be very strange in an airplane
He thought i wonder what the sea looks like from that height
They should be able to see the fish
Well if they do not fly too high
I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathers high and see the fish from above
If the turtle votes i was in the crosttrees at the mast head
and even at that height
I saw much the dolphin look greener from there
and you can see their stripes and their purple spots
and you can see all of the school as they swim
Why es it
That all the fast moving fish of the dark current have purple backs and usually purple stripes or spots
The dolphin looks green
Of course
Because he is really golden
But when he comes to feed truly hungry purple strips show on his sides as on a malin can it be anger or the greatest speed
oe makes that brings the maunt just before it was dark
as they passed a great island of sgasso weed
That heaved an swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under yellow blanket
His small line was taken by
Taken by a dolphin
ue saw it first
When it jumped in the air
True gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air
it jumped igain ind agoin in the acrobatics af its fear
and he worked his way back to the stern an crowching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm
He pulled the dolphin in with his left hand
He pilled the gained line each time with his beare left foot
When the fish was at the stern plan dunging an cutting from side to side in desperation
The old man leaned the the nn and lifted burburnished gold fish with its purple spots over the stern
Its jaws were working convulsively in quick bites against the hook
And it pounded the bottom of the skift with its long flat body
at's tail and its head
until he clubbed it across the shining gold end head
until it shivered and was still