第9章 Final Fight[第4页/共6页]

I have all those prayers I promised if I caught the fish, he thought.But I am too tired to say them now.I better get the sack and put it over my shoulders.

He saw the reflected glare of the lights of the city at what must have been around ten o'clock at night.They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises.Then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now with the increasing breeze.He steered inside of the glow and he thought that now,soon,he must hit the edge of the stream.

He liked to think of the fish and what he could do to a shark if he were swimming free.I should have chopped the bill off to fight them with,he thought.But there was no hatchet and then there was no knife.

“Don't be silly,”he said aloud.“And keep awake and steer.You may have much luck yet.”

He spat into the ocean and said,“Eat that,Galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.”

Now it is over, he thought. They will probably hit me again.But what can a man do against them in the dark without a weapon?