Following Timothy's death in Theodore Taylor's
The Cay, Phillip is left all alone. He manages to find a solitary
coconut among the debris on the beach, but he also realizes he must provide food for
himself and Stew-Cat. Then he remembers about the fishing poles that Timothy had tried
to protect against the storm. Although Timothy had told Phillip that the poles were in a
"safe place," Timothy had forgotten to tell Phillip where they were. While stumbling
around the beach in his search and running his hands over tree
trunks,
... I
touched rope. I followed it around to the lee side with my fingers. And there they
were!
Timothy had not left
only a few poles, but
... at least a dozen, lashed together with a
barbed hook and bolt sinker. They were one more part of the legacy Timothy had left
me.
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