We noticed that Tony’s gang of Army Brats was not good company for him. So Pat and I agreed that he would stay in Baguio with my Cousin, Mg. Feling, and be with his second cousin Pepito, about his age. He was enrolled in the Baguio High School from U.P. as a third year student. He said he liked it there.
On weekends Tony and Pepito shined shoes and rented comics on the sidewalk near their apartment.
At night they would go and catch goldfish from the Burnham Park Lake.
On weekends he would ride the bus to Camp Crame.
One evening, when the bus he was riding stopped at the Villasis Bridge, he felt very hungry but had no money. Suddenly the lights went off while he was in front of a food stall. He grabbed some food stuff and went back to the bus before the lights went on. He knew how to live. “Necessity knows no law.”
When the heart rules, the head is lost. When the head rules, the heart is lost. When the stomach rules, everything is lost!
He brought his bike from Baguio on a vacation and rode it to Crame from the bus station in Manila, which was quite a distance away. Tony graduated from Baguio High School.
When he was only 6 years old, I sent him on board a train from Manila to Lucena with a Christmas tree twice his height for Mg. Trining. I told the conductor to drop him at the Lucena station. He arrived in the house of Mg. Trining dragging the pine tree.
Mg. Trining accompanied him back to Manila and scolded me and Pat for letting Tony do that.
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