Ernest Hemminwaty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone \neighty- four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. \nBut after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was \nnow definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone \nat their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the \nboy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went \ndown to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that \nwas furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked \nlike the flag of permanent defeat. <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernest Hemminwaty He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty- fou … <\/p>\n