The old man was short and fat thin and gaunt short and thin

Thin and Gaunt.

Explanation:

"The Old Man and The Sea" is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway.

In this novella, the old man's name is Santiago. He had been unlucky to catch any fish in eighty-four days.

The old man in the novella is described as "thin and gaunt" he also have "wrinkles on the back of the neck". He also had brown blotches which he got because of skin cancer. He had "deep-creased" scars because of handling fish on the cords.

can you copy and paste what selections you read? the answer is based off of that.

the answer is mary made mudpies on monday.

remember alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.