第7章 The Old Mans Victory（1/9）
“here ill be bad eather in three or four days,”he said.“ut not tonight and no no to get some slee,old man,hile the fish is calm and steady.”
e held the line tight in his right hand and then ushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his eight against the ood of th he assed the line a little loer on his shoulders and braced his left hand on it.
y right hand can hold it as long as it is braced, h it relaxes in slee my left hand ill ake me as the line goe is hard on the righ he is used t if slee tenty minutes or a half an hour it i lay forard craming himself against the line ith all of his body,utting all his eight onto his right hand, and he a did not dream of the lions but instead of a vast school of oroises that stretched for eight or ten miles and it as in the time of their mating and they ould lea high into the air and return into the same hole they had made in the ater hen the he dreamed that he as in the village on his bed and there as a norther and he as very cold and his right arm as aslee because his head had rested on it instead of that he began to dream of the long yello beach and he sa the first of the lions come don onto it in the early dark and then the other lions came and he rested his chin on the ood of the bos here the shi lay anchored ith the evening off-shore breeze and he aited to see if there ould be more lions and he a moon had been u for a long time but he slet on and the fish ulled on steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel o oke ith the jerk of his right fist coming u against his face and the line burning out through his righ had no feeling of his left hand but he braked all he could ith his right and the line rushe his left hand found the line and he leaned back against the line and no it burned his back and his left hand,and his left hand as taking all the strain and cuttin looked back at the coils of line and they ere feedin then the fish jumed making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heav he jumed a
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