第7章 The Old Mans Victory[第3页/共16页]

For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead.He was not afraid of the black spots. They were normal at the tension that he was pulling on the line.Twice,though,he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him.

Now I must prepare the nooses and the rope to lash him alongside ,he thought.Even if we were two and swamped her to load him and bailed her out,this skiff would never hold him.I must prepare everything,then bring him in and lash him well and step the mast and set sail for home.

Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.