【演讲稿】That morning the fish jumped.docx

第 1 页 That morning the fish jumped1 特征码 GTdFARuVjHWSHRkeMyrj That morning the fish jumped Seeing it leap, Santiago five fingers shoes knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had even seen. Then the fish playground equipment manufacturer went under and turned toward the east. Santiago ac plug drank sparingly from his water bottle during the hot afternoon. Trying to pressure switch forget his cut hand and aching back, he remembered fuel dispenser pump the days when men had called him Campeon and he had cheap puma shoes wrestled with a giant Negro in the tavern at Cienfuegos. Once an airplane cheap nike air max droned overhead on its way to Miami. Close to nightfall a dolphin valve stem took the small hook he had rebaited. He lifted the cheap nike shox fish aboard, careful not to jerk the line convert dvd to ipod over his shoulder.The fish was two feet longer than coach purses the boat. No catch like it had ever been seen in Havana machine center harbor. It would 第 2 页 make his fortune, he thought, as he hoisted his patched replica football shirts sails and set his course toward the southwest. An hour later he sighted the rip blu ray first shark. It was a fierce Mako, and it came in mac ipod converter fast to slash with raking teeth at the dead marlin. With dvd copy mac failing might the old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The dvd ripper mac Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin mutilated and avi convert bloody. Santiago knew the scent would video converter spread. Watching, he saw two shovel nosed sharks dvd to mp4 closing in. He struck at one with his knife lashed dvd ripping to the end of an oar and watched the scavenger sliding down into deep water.At first he tried to club them with the tiller from the skiff, but his tory burch shoes hands were raw and bleeding and there were too many in the pack. In the darkness, as he steered toward the faint glow of Havana against the sky, he heard them hitting the carcass hermes handbags again and again. But the old man thought only of his 第 3 页 steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch. All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his skiff. In the gloom he could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. he started up the shore with the mast and furled sail of his boat. Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength. In his shack he fell on his bed and went to sleep. There the boy found him later that morning. Meanwhile other fishermen, gathered about the skiff, marveled at the giant marlin, eighteen feet long from nose to tail. When Manolin returned to Santiago's shack with hot coffee, the old man awoke. The boy, he said, could have the spear of his fish. Manolin told him to rest, to make himself fit for the days of fishing they would 第 4 页 have together. All that afternoon the old man slept, the boy sitting by his bed. Santiago was dreaming of lions.