He woke with the jerk of his right fist coming up against his face and
the line burning out through his right hand. He had no feeling of his
left hand but he braked all he could with his right and the line rushed
out. Finally his left hand found the line and he leaned back against the
line and now it burned his back and his left hand, and his left hand was
taking all the strain and cutting badly. He looked back at the coils of
line and they were feeding smoothly. Just then the fish jumped making a
great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall. Then he jumped again
and again and the boat was going fast although line was still racing out
and the old man was raising the strain to breaking point and raising it
to breaking point again and again. He had been pulled down tight onto
the bow and his face was in the cut slice of dolphin and he could not move.
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