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The school was on the square, the same building is now the municipality. As he remembers, Pencho was short and very naughty as a child. At that time, only Grandma Irinka and Donka, Pencho and Penka lived in Tryavna, Grandpa Slaveykov was in Constantinople, and the other boys were in Constantinople and Russia. Grandma Slaveykovitsa was a middle-aged woman at that time, pretty, Raykov, with a headscarf, wide-brimmed hat and a fur coat. She was mostly in her father Ivancho's house when it was next to the school. There was a gate on their fence that led directly to the churchyard. When the eldest son of a teacher Petko returned from Constantinople, he came to the school, all his feet, and the teachers surrounded him.

I lived with my aunt Todorka for two years. I finished high school with her, because they lived in Kyustendil. This was in 1906 and 1907. Her husband had passed away. His house was in the same yard of Grandpa Slaveykov's small house, where Slaveykov, from Bolgrad, lived. Kosta Atanasova, niece of Pencho's daughter-in-law 62 Slaveykov, Todorka Ivanka Slaveykov, lived with Pencho Slaveykov, on Slaveykov Square. Our windows looked out onto Pencho's windows. Here at my aunt's, I saw him for the first time. A tall, handsome, black-eyed man with a cane. He made a strong impression on me, especially since he moved with difficulty and used it slowly, slowly. He came very often, usually after lunch for coffee, and on Sundays at around 10 in the morning. From afar I could hear his stick on the cobblestones when he came to my aunt's. He would come down to the dining room and talk to my aunt. As soon as he came in, I would jump up and down, ready to hand him this or that, to help him with something. My aunt would tell me that this embarrassed him - not to sit so alert and not to show that I noticed his disability, because it bothered him. One day he came over and told my aunt:

Her sister, Tochka, was with our family to help with the household. They took her from Tarnovo and took her with them to Plovdiv. Grandpa Slaveykov's brother, Panayot, was a poor man, and Grandpa Slaveykov wanted to help his children study. Tochka stayed with them the longest. My grandmother treated her like a servant and constantly grumbled at my grandfather for taking her brother's children home. At one time, three of them - Tochka, Mariyka and Racho - were with them. My grandmother didn't want them. Tochka told her sister that on a very cold winter day (in Plovdiv), Pencho went out in the morning and didn't return home all day. His brother Ivan had told him that the day was very cold, not to go out. He went to Maritsa on skates and only came back in the evening. He got up at night and fell. That's when his illness began. "I remember him, I was a year-old child, how my sister and the maid dragged him through the yard, he leaned on their shoulders, paralyzed. This must have been in 1884, when he later told how much they had treated him. - They burned me, they hanged me, they did everything to me! So he sat paralyzed in the attic of the old house. I was a 6-year-old child. He gave me a bunch of grapes. "Don't let mom see you!" Grandma Slaveykovitsa asked. I put my hand behind my back and as soon as she approached, I dropped the grapes in the grass." He also told an incident, somewhere in the west: