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The tuna

The fishermen called all the fish of that species

Tuna are only distingushshed among them by their proper ames

Ames

When they to to ll ll them to trade them for bates ts were down again

The sun was hot now

And the old man elelted on the back of his neck

And felt the sweat trickle down his back

As he wrote

I could just drift he thought and sleep

And put a bite of line around my toe to wake me

But today is eighty five days

And i should fish the day

Well just then watching his lines

He saw one of the projecting green sticks dip sharply

Yes

He said yes

And shipped his oars without bumping the boat

He reached out for the line

And held it softly between the thermon fourfinger of his right hand

He felt no strain nor weight

And he held the line lightly

Then it came again

This time it was a tentative pool

Not solid nor heavy

And he knew exactly what it was one hundred fathoms down a mallan was eating the sardines

That covered the point and the shank of the hook

Where the handforged took projected from the head of the small tuna

The old man held the line delicately and softly with his left hand unleased it from the stick

Now he could let it run through his fingers without the fish feeling any tension this far out

He must be huge in this month

He thought eat them fish

Eat them

Please eat them how fresh they are

And knew down there six hundred feet in that cold water in the dark

Make another turn in the dark and come back

And eat them

He felt the light delicate pulling

And then a harder pool

When asassaddean's head must have been more difficult to break from the hook

Then there was nothing come on

The old man said

Aloud make another turn to smell them

Aren't they lovely eat them good now

And there's the tuna hard and cold and lovely

Don't be shy fish eat them

He waited with the line between his ththumb and his finger watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swam up or down

Then came the same delicate pulling touch again

He'll take it

The old man said allowed

God helped to take it

He did not take it

Though he was gone

And the old man felt nothing