The adventures of a beggar boy : the story of the Camagon Cane
Media
Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- The adventures of a beggar boy : the story of the Camagon Cane
- Creator
- Peña, Julio Cesar
- Year
- 1935
- Subject
- Short stories, Philippines (English)
- Children stories, Philippines (English)
- Philippine fiction (English)
- Adventure stories, English-Philippines
- Rights
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- Abstract
- After supper, Tonio handed to the old man his buyo box and his calikot. He married the most beautiful girl of the town who had been courted by the 'old man of the mound.' "The young woman, who later became my grandmother, received nightly calls from the Old Man. This act of hers maddened the Old Man and he would retreat muttering: 'Crazy fool, crazy fool.' For more than a month the Old Man visited the girl, pinched her, wooed her with the same words chanted in the same fashion, and left murmuring angrily when she said her prayers.
- Description
- Chapter 2