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216 JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO Just then young Kuó yelled out, “Jonathan, come help me! I’ve caught a huge fish!” Jonathan ran over to the other side of the boat and began helping Kuó, showing him how to reel the fish in with a steady motion. “I’ll get the net ready,” Ronú said, as Kuó strained on the rod and reel. “It’s a big fish, and it looks like a Tuna,” Viviana said, as she took Kuó’s picture while he was working hard trying to pull the fish in. It was so large that it took Kuó over twenty minutes, but he finally had the fish next to the boat. “I’ve got it in the net!” Ronú yelled, trying to pull it into the boat by himself, “Ooooofff! Jonathan, I am going to need your help to get it in.” Jonathan just grinned, and strode over to help haul the fifty kilogram fish onto the deck. “Okay, now that we have the fish, who wants to cook it?” Tital asked everyone. “We elect you!” Bardala shouted from the tiller. “I remember back on a beach when you said you just LOOOOOOOVED Marlin, so we have one and a big fat Tuna also. You will be busy, O Master Chef!” Tital looked around, and everyone was pointing their fingers at him. He looked overhead, and even Moka and Eegh were pointing at him. He looked to his left, and Brilloso raised his left paw. “Weeeell...Okay, I guess I am the cook tonight. I hope you like the food. Jonathan, please have Ronú help you build a cooking fire in the brick oven over there.” Tital took out his Hibben knife, and began cutting steaks from first the Marlin, and then the fat Tuna. Lena helped by finding aluminum pans to bake the seven-centimeter-thick steaks in.