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Filippa looked very wise, pointed to her indigo skirt, and continued: "You get your dyes from the benzene of coal tar, but they do not stand washing or sunlight, as well as our bright and strong vegetable dyes. We take our indigo plant, and steep the leaves in water for twelve hours, in a stone tank. Then Fil drains off the yellow liquor. This soon turns green.
"You should use oil or gas for fuel, and should press every drop of sugar out of that valuable cane. Waste not; want not, is as good a maxim for a nation as for a boy." "If you are always that serious, like a lecturer, the children may not like you so well," remarked the gentle Padre. "Not at all," replied Fil and Moro and Filippa and Favra, who perhaps remembered the pennies I had given to them.
Their wings are burnt off; and, silly, half-blind things, they all get drowned or wet, so that we can gather and destroy them." "They can nip you, too," said Moro, who was slapping at something on his hand. "Some people in the Philippines eat insects the locusts. They fry them in coconut oil. Did you ever hear of such a wonder?" asked Filippa.
When Fil and Filippa were aroused each morning, I noticed that their mother did not touch or shake them, and I ventured to ask why she called so long and loud, even though she was standing over them. I remarked that in our land, a father would soon shake his lazy boy awake. "You shock me," replied Fil's mother.
It did not seem to be a well-balanced boat, yet it sailed along at a great speed; and risky as the sport seemed, the sailor sat perfectly safe on his high and dangerous looking perch, above the water. "What kind of boat is that?" I asked. "An out-rigger boat. Some people call it a dug-out boat," replied Filippa. "I'll tell you more about it," added Fil.
"It is three hundred feet long, as long as a city block, if you pull it out of the jungle and away from the tree tops, where it has climbed like a huge snake. We can use it for bridge or carriage ropes, or we can divide the strands and make cloth, or hats, or cord out of it." "What gorgeous and sweet-scented flowers," exclaimed Filippa, pointing to a great tree.
Then they bowed before the cross on the altar, which was shining at the end of the long aisle. In the front seats, under the high dome, we could see Filippa, her parents, and Favra. The colored light from the stained glass windows fell down in rays and clouds of beauty upon the altar boys, who wore robes of purple and white lace.
The driver, who wore a mushroom-shaped bamboo hat, pulled the water buffalo to a stop. All, except Filippa and Favra, got off at the mouth of a cave. "I won't go in or near it," exclaimed Filippa. "Girls are afraid of real things, of imaginary noises, and even of unreal shadows," jeered Fil. "No wonder, if you refer to this damp cave," remarked Fil's mother.
"I also notice a curved deck or covering, laid over the boats," I said. "Yes, that is a roof, or thatch, made out of nipa palm leaves tied on to bamboo sticks," Fil explained. "Please look!" said sweet little Filippa. "Out there on the purple ocean is a more wonderful boat still." I looked. Oddest of sights! A boat shaped like a long leaf was scudding before the wind.
The inevitable result, upon which again the subtle Charles had counted, was to exasperate a group of her most prominent nobles into plotting the ruin of Andreas. It was a good beginning, and unfortunately Giovanna's own behaviour afforded Charles the means of further speeding up his game. The young Queen was under the governance of Filippa the Catanese, an evil woman, greedy of power.
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