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falco falcone 29i
29I
when he was eight days old he had a tooth. But
when his mother laid him to her breast, he was so
violent that she laughed and said: " I believe I
have given the world a hero,"
She always expected great things of Falco, and
she filled him with pride. But who else had hopes
of him ? Falco could not learn to read, even. His
mother tried to take the book and teach him the
letters. She pointed to A, this is the big hat; she
pointed to B, this is a pair of spectacles ; she
pointed to C, this is the snake. That he learned. Then
his mother said : " If you put the spectacles and the
big hat together, you will have Ba." That he could
not learn. He became angry and struck her. And
she let him be. " You’ll be a great man,
nevertheless," she would say.
Falco was indolent and bad during his childhood
and youth. As a child he would not play, grown up
he would not dance. He took to himself no
sweetheart, yet he went gladly to places where quarreling
might be expected.
Falco had two brothers, who were like other
people, and who were considered of greater importance
than he. Falco, to be sure, felt hurt to find himself
overlooked on account of his brothers, but he was
too proud to show it, and his mother always took
his part. After his father had died, she let him sit
at the head of the table and she never allowed
anyone to joke with him. " My eldest son is foremost
of you all," she said.
As the people remember this, they say : " Falco
is proud. He will esteem it an honor to destroy the
railroad."
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