But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in anotherīoat which caught three good fish the first week. In the first forty days a boy had been with him.
H e was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
