Feeney J. Thomas. Avelino, a Tale of the Ilocano Country

New York: Jesuit Mission Press, 1930. — 28 p.Feeney J. Thomas. Avelino, legend of the Ilok country (In English)Huddled over desks hewn from the nara groves of Fernandina, my third year high school hoys are speeding to the finish of the daily catechism drill.
In the light of modern school appointments, what a scene for the regency inspector! To my right is the lone window, latticed with iron bars. No fairy casement this, opening out onto fairy lands forlorn!
The vision it reveals is confined to the prosaic Plaza Burgos, the agora for all the quidnuncs of a municipality that was already ancient when it was first espied by Salcedo from his Spanish caravels.