Narrated by José Ignacio, a Tagalog from Malabon, Rizal.
 
Once there lived a poor man who had to support his family, the members of which were a hot-headed wife who predominated over the will of her husband; a small boy of ten; and an old man of eighty, the boy’s grandfather. This old man could no longer work, because of his feebleness. He was the cause of many quarrels between the husband and wife, but was loved by their son.
 
One rainy morning the husband was forced by his wife to send his father away. He called his son,............