The natives mocked while they paid him.

He swallowed his pride and made the collections, but was in such a state of mind that he had no respect for any one.

He even came to have some hard words with your father.
"One day it happened that he was in a shop turning a document over and over in the effort to get it straight when a schoolboy began to make signs to his companions and to point laughingly at the collector with his finger.

The fellow heard the laughter and saw the joke reflected in the solemn faces of the bystanders.

He lost his patience and, turning quickly, started to chase the boys, who ran away shouting _ba, be, bi, bo, bu_.