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"MANUEL The constable" (PART TWO) The constable

A selection of souvenirs Catalá July.

was many and varied crafts and tasks of this exceptional human being, always conducted with the utmost honesty and integrity. Then try to collect any of them (for surely that I forget more than one):

- "Manuel the sheriff" was responsible of the cell, a small room with a mattress in a sill and a window that overlooked the Calle Real. In this prison as "sui generis", where from time to time be entered to a "criminal" (people who normally disturbed the public order with little mischief, or even violated laws ancient dark age, as the "law of dangerousness social "). Manolo was the one who brought them coffee, food (meats prepared at home) or let them out to sun patio ("come on, jump in the sun for a while," foo ", but do not go away," eh?).

- "Manuel the sheriff" which was read water meters located in the stables and corrals of the home. I remember that in this task never lacked a joke, a joke with the residents of the house that always received with pleasure as his affable character. Is important to note that, after this first task, then made the receipts by hand, in his own handwriting, to later move to cash.

- At parties and celebrations I remember the plots, surrounded by urchins, balloons rising into the sky and "puppets" (paper lanterns, with a small flame inside that rose up to burn up there in heights)

- Manager to measure the fifth in the conference room of City Hall, was famous tap that gave each of them in the head with the wooden locker that was used for this purpose, which always caused laughter and jokes of zagalones (I specifically measured in the 69).

- No "Manuel the sheriff", no "Rosario de la Aurora", so there he was. Time. At five in the morning. Responsible for organizing and directing "Campanilleros" through the streets of Armilla.


- The keys to the cemetery were well guarded at home, so if someone wanted to go to the cemetery, was a house of Manuel Sheriff "where you had to go first.

- Before Armilla had running water, you would find with Manuel in the standpipe that was on top of organizing people, laughing and joking, the tails of the women who came for water.

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Photo: Manuel Vico in 1967
FAMILY IMAGE FILE.

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MANUEL (PART THREE)

A selection of souvenirs Catalá July.

- When it was time for chores street (as a collector of "gutter" of the taxes of the bars or masons search for municipal works, for example) you could see in the City (an institution which then had very few staff, the secretary and little more) in response to the public from documents, records and notices to machine (I remember like it was yesterday, typing with two fingers. Coal tracing between the two pages). Once told me how he was going to school as a child every two or three nights, then spent the day from dawn to dusk in the field plowing. His father gave him a shilling to pay the teacher every day he went.

- Assistant tireless of problems elsewhere, there you could see the papers by arranging for "fat bitch" from a neighbor or by calling (which was the only one in the town, the phone of the council) for a case of multiple births or emergency precipitated .

And that was not all .. Manuel said that the salary of the council had "for potatoes eggs .. if he had to look for more odd jobs." Father of five children and a tireless worker sought life in myriad ways over the map: the camera collector Quéntar urban and Dudar, a correspondent bank (could see it with his little rubber band folders where "enduring" the lyrics of small businesses until they could afford it), insurance billing, sales of coffins, a farmer from a small orchard and a thousand things but take the journey of a man who from six of the day faced with a life cheerful, transmitting at all times that joy to others.


We left at 93. Exactly on February 12. I remember all the people filling the atrium, the church, the plaza, the street. We all wanted to say goodbye to him. Manuel Serrano Vico. From our "Manuel the sheriff.." Peaceful, generous, upright, honest ... I think the history of peoples, the history of our peoples, is written by people like this. Simple and formal people through and through .. Beings who passed through the world to make life easier, more pleasant and bearable for others. A man who as Machado said was "in the best sense of the word, good" and that will always remain in the memory of all who were fortunate enough to be on your way.


Photo: Manuel Vico in 1982, recently retired.
FAMILY IMAGE FILE.