“ake u old man,”the boy said and ut his hand on one of the old man' old man oened his eyes and for a moment he as coming back from a long a he smiled.

“hat have you got?”he asked.

“uer,”said the boy.

“ e're going to have suer.”

“'m not very hungry.”

“ome on an can't fish and not eat.”

“ have,”the old man said getting u and taking the nesaer and folding it.

hen he started to fold the blanket.

“ee the blanket around you,”the bo'll not fish ithout eating hile 'm alive.

“hen live a long time and take care of yourself,”the old man said.

“ hat are e eating?”

“lack beans and rice,fried bananas,and some ste.”

he boy had brought them in a to-decker metal container from th to sets of knives and forks and soons ere in his ocket ith a aer-nakin raed around each set.

“ho gave this to you?”

“ oner.”

“ must thank him.”

“ thanked him already,”the boy said.

“ou don't need to thank him.”

“'ll give him the belly meat of a big fish,”the old man said.

“ as he done this for us more than once?”

“ think so.”

“ must give him something more than the belly mea is very thoughtful for us.”

“e sent to beers.”

“ like the beer in cans best.”

“ this is in bottles,atuey beer,and take back the bottles.”

“hat's very kind of you,”the old man said.

“hould e eat?”

“'ve been asking you to,”the boy told him gently.

“ have not ished to oen the container until you ere ready.”“'m ready no,”the old man said.

“ only needed time to ash.”

here did you ash?

he bo village ater suly as to streets don th have ater here for him,the boy thought,and soa and a goo am so thoughtless?

must get him another shirt and a jacket for the inter and some sort of shoes and another blanket.

“our ste is excellent,”the old man said.

“ell me about the baseball,”he boy asked him.

“n the merican eague it is the ankees as said,”the old man said haily.
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