The Laughter of My Father

The rich man's children ate their good food and grew thinner and more peaked. The Bulosans, next door, went on eating their poor and meagre food, laughed, and grew fat. So the rich man sued Father Bulosan for stealing the spirit of his food. And Father paid him in his own coin, while the laughter of the Bulosans and the judge drove the rich man's family out of the courtroom.
The Bulosans lived in Binalonan, in the Philippine province of Pangasinan. But the episodes of Father's history that...