Street begging? No, it wasn’t really street begging. He wasn’t used to walking and begging on the streets, but the physical difficulty of life itself was not what Ali felt most.
He was beginning to feel the pressure of his losing his Dad so early in life. Like a hunter inexperienced in the camouflage of his game he found the streets as his only source of living.
It was an unfavorable condition for a child his age. But, anyway, he needed to live so he did look to the street much like a street hunter he suddenly had become.