He was an old man who fished alone in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days, a boy had gone with him . . . it made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty, and he always went down to help him.
He was an old man who fished alone in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days, a boy had gone with him . . . it made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty, and he always went down to help him.
From The Old Man and the Sea