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motorboats,bought when the shark livers had brought much money

always said as though she were a woman.

Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are

He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her

But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly,

when the ocean can be so cruel

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows

The birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and

especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and

the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the

rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and

schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the

Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait and sometimes

where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current

rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great

of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

harbor and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.

But most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars.

the old man heard the dip and push of their oars even though he could

There were other boats from the other beaches going out to sea and

leaning forward against the thrust of the blades in the water,he began