Alfredo Viola Santiago
1917 · Bulacan, Philippines · From the time when the family, having fled to the mountains from the Americans, had come down to Paho, nearer the town. People who had fallen sick in the mountains came to buy medicine. The medicines had been left behind by his father when the Spanish priests had him banished to Sulu. The spelling is Bloomfield's phonetic transcription, not today's orthography. The English is Bloomfield's own translation from the same book.
When it was opened, we saw a snake coiled up and sleeping on the rice-hulls that covered the bottles. The people who saw this rejoiced greatly, but Mother was only frightened. She did not know the meaning of the snake. When the rejoicing was over, Mother asked why they were all so glad. They answered that the meaning of the snake was that the owner of the medicine was going to get rich. Mother only laughed at what they said, for she did not believe in these things.
Nang itò y mabuksan nà ay nàkíta námin ang isà ng áhas na nakaíkid at natùtúlog sa ibábaw nang ipà na nàtàtábon sa manga bóte. Malaki ng twà` nang ibà ng táo ng nakàkíta, dátapuwat si Nánay ay natákot lámang. Hindí nya nàlàláman ang kahulugàn nang áhas na iyòn. Pagkaraàn nang kàtwáan ay itinanùng ni Nánay kung anò ang dáhil at silà y nagkàkàtwáan. Isinagòt nilà kay Nánay na ang kahulugàn nang áhas na iyòn ay ang pagpatúngo sa pagyáman nang may árì nang gamòt. Si Nánay ay nàpatawà lámang sa kanilà ng sábi, at hindí sya nanìniwálà sa manga bágay na iyòn.
"Fleeing from the Americans (Ang takbúhan sa Amerikáno)" · Leonard Bloomfield, Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (1917)
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Alfredo Viola Santiago
1917 · Bulacan, Philippines · A memory from when he was about four, during the 1896 revolution against Spain, when the family sheltered in the town of Bustos to get away from the fighting. The spelling is Bloomfield's phonetic transcription, not today's orthography. The English is Bloomfield's own translation from the same book.
The friends with whom we stayed were kind people. They often played with my sister and me, and the game was to make ducks dive in the clear waters of the river. What took place in the fighting of those times I did not find out, for I was still small and had not yet any understanding.
Ang ámi ng manga kaybíga ng tinulúyan ay mababaìt na táo. Akò at ang áki ng kapatìd na babáye ay kanila ng paráti ng ipinalílibàng, at ang paglilibàng na itò ay ang pagpapasísid nang páto sa malínaw na túbig sa ílog. Kung anò ang nangyári sa manga paglalabanàn nang manga panaho ng iyòn ay hindí ku nàalamàn, dahilàn sa kaliitàn at kawalàn pa nang málay.
"Fleeing from the Americans (Ang takbúhan sa Amerikáno)" · Leonard Bloomfield, Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (1917)
Alfredo Viola Santiago
1917 · Bulacan, Philippines · A memory of the noon when American soldiers entered San Miguel, after the family had come back from the mountains. Having heard that the Americans were not as fierce as rumour had it, he says, the family did not run but waited. The spelling is Bloomfield's phonetic transcription, not today's orthography. The English is Bloomfield's own translation from the same book.
From the back yard of the house in which we were living I saw the approach of the soldiers. Their trousers were khaki and their shirts blue. They carried their guns and ran in single file across the fields and came toward the road.
Sa dulúhan nang bakúran nang báhay na ámi ng kinàtirhàn ay nàkíta ko ang paglápit nang manga sundálo. Ang salawàl nilà ay káki at ang kamiséta asùl. Bitbìt nilà ang manga barìl at nakahiléra sila nang pagtakbò sa bukirìn at patúngo silà sa daàn.
"Fleeing from the Americans (Ang takbúhan sa Amerikáno)" · Leonard Bloomfield, Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (1917)
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Go up by land, you meet a tiger; go down by water, you meet a crocodile.A proverb from John Bowring, The Kingdom and People of Siam (1857), as reprinted in George B. Bacon, Siam, the Land of the White Elephant · in place of the original: the English translation by John Bowring (1857)
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