that ill not have a failure of strength.

“ ish the boy ere here and that had some salt,”he sai the eight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully he ashed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged , for more than a minute atching the blood trail aay and the steady movement of the ater against his hand as the boat moved.

“e has sloed much,”h old man ould have liked to kee his hand in the salt ater longer but he as afraid of another sudden lurch by the fish and he stood u and braced himself and held his hand u against th as only a line burn that had cut hi it as in the orking art of hi kne he ould need his hands before this as over and he did not like to be cut before it started.

“o,”he said,hen his hand had dried,“ must eat the smal reach him ith the gaff and eat him here in comfort.”

e knelt don and found the tuna under the stern ith the gaff and dre it toard him keeing it clear of the coile the line ith his left shoulder again,and bracing on his left hand and arm,he took the tuna off the gaff hook and ut the gaff back i ut one knee on the fish and cut stris of dark red meat longitudinally from the back of the head to th ere edge-shaed stris and he cut them from next to the backbone don to the edge of th he had cut six stris he sread them out on the ood of the bo,ied his knife on his trousers, and lifted the carcass of the bonito by the tail and droed it overboard.

“ don't think can eat an entire one,”he said and dre his knife across one of th could feel the steady hard ull of the line and his left hand a dre u tight on the heavy cord and he looked at it in disgust.

“hat kind of a hand is that,”he said.“ram then if yo yourself into ill do you no good.”ome on,he thought and looked don into the dark ater at the slant of th it no and it ill strengthen th is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours ith th you can stay ith hi the bonit icked u a iece and ut it in his mouth and cheed
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