Francisco b icasiano autobiography
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The World in A Train by Francisco B. Icasiano
The World in A Train by Francisco B. Icasiano
Icasiano
One Sunday I entrained for Baliwag, a town in Bulacan which can well afford to hold two fiestas a year
without a qualm.
I took the train partly because I am prejudiced in favor of the government-owned railroad, partly because I
am allowed comparative comfort in a coach, and finally because trains sometimes leave and arrive according
to schedule.
In the coach I found a little world, a section of the abstraction called humanity whom we are supposed to
love and live for.I had previously arranged to divide the idle hour or so between cultivating my neglected
Christianity and smoothing out the rough edges of my nature with the aid of grateful sights without – the
rolling wheels, the flying huts and trees and light-green palay seedlings and carabaos along the way.
Inertia, I suppose, and the sort of reality we moderns know make falling in love with my immediate
neighbors often a matter of severe strain and effort to me.
Let me give a sketchy picture of the little world whose company Mang Kiko shared in moments which soon
passed away affecting most of us.
First, there came to my notice three husky individuals who dusted their seats furiously with their
handkerchiefs without regard to hygiene or the brotherhood of gave m
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