Dr. de Tavera, a noted Filipino, Whose writings you will read when you are older, tells you what he thinks of the carabao, the great, heavy, faithful creature which works year in and year out for his master.
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"The black carabao, although he is so slow and heavy, is the strongest of the Philippine animals. He is the most dangerous with the fury
of the whirlwind.
"When man has tamed him, however, he is no linger fierce, but mild as lamb. Then he can be led by little children through the fields to the work that he performs so patiently and obediently.
"He shares our toil in tilling the land, and in the cities, as well as in the fields, he hauls our burdens for us. It is with his help that we raise our crops and earn our daily bread.
"Unfortunately, though, our pride sometimes makes us forget the debt we owe him, and we speak scornfully the name that we should honor, the of the carabao."
"The black carabao, although he is so slow and heavy, is the strongest of the Philippine animals. He is the most dangerous with the fury
of the whirlwind."When man has tamed him, however, he is no linger fierce, but mild as lamb. Then he can be led by little children through the fields to the work that he performs so patiently and obediently.
"He shares our toil in tilling the land, and in the cities, as well as in the fields, he hauls our burdens for us. It is with his help that we raise our crops and earn our daily bread.
"Unfortunately, though, our pride sometimes makes us forget the debt we owe him, and we speak scornfully the name that we should honor, the of the carabao."
T.H.Pardo DE Tavera
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