第6章 Tired of the Old Man[第11页/共14页]

Once in the afternoon the line started to rise again.But the fish only continued to swim at a slightly higher level.The sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back.So he knew the fish had turned east of north.

“I'll lash the two oars together across the stern and that will slow him in the night,”he said.“ He's good for the night and so am I.”

He felt very tired now and he knew the night would come soon and he tried to think of other things.He thought of the Big Leagues,to him they were the Gran Ligas,and he knew that the Yankees of New York were playing the Tigres of Detroit.