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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