“Let us take the stuff home,”the boy said.“ So I can get the cast net and go after the sardines.”
“No,”the boy said.“But I will see something that he cannot see such as a bird working and get him to come out after dolphin.”
“May I get the sardines?I know where I can get four baits too.”
“No,I will eat at home.Do you want me to make the fire?”
“The month when the great fish come,”the old man said.“ Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing. I can remember you throwing me into the bow where the wet coiled lines were and feeling the whole boat shiver and the noise of you clubbing him like chopping a tree down and the sweet blood smell all over me.”
“He is almost blind.”
“That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.”
“It could not happen twice.Do you think you can find an eighty-five?”
“Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current,”he said.
“One sheet.That's two dollars and a half.Who can we borrow that from?”
“Two,”the boy said.
“I'll be back when I have the sardines.I'll keep yours and mine together on ice and we can share them in the morning. When I come back you can tell me about the baseball.”