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Updated: May 13, 2025
"But your Reverence should consider " "See now," went on the Franciscan, not allowing the alcalde to continue, "look how one of our lay brothers, the most stupid that we have, has constructed a hospital, good, pretty, and cheap. He made them work hard and paid only eight cuartos a day even to those who had to come from other towns.
It is well built and he did not pay more than eight cuartos a day to those whom he employed even those who came from other towns. That fellow knows how to treat them. He does not do like many fools and mesticillos who spoil them by paying them three or four reales." "Does Your Reverence say that he only paid eight cuartos?
My friend the contractor was in annual receipt, therefore, from every thirty-five of his trees, of 360 × 1/2 × 5 cuartos = $40.50. As the thirty-five trees only cost him $21.875, his invested capital brought him in about 200 per cent. It caused espionage, robberies of all sorts, embezzlement, and bribery on a large scale.
The manufacture was carried on by private individuals; but the whole of the brandy was of necessity disposed of to the administration, which, however, paid such a high price for it that the contractors made large profits. One man is sufficient to attend to them, and receives for his trouble half the proceeds. The administration pays six cuartos for a quart of brandy.
According to the prices current with us, the value would be calculated at about $12; the value of the analyzed specimen, to which we have before referred, $14.50. The fact was that in Naga, at that time, one nut fetched two cuartos twelve times as much as in Daet. N. Loney asserts, in one of his excellent reports, that there never is a deficiency of suitable laborers.
She had left Juli at home memorizing a booklet the curate had sold her for four cuartos, with forty days of indulgence granted by the Archbishop to every one who read it or listened to it read. "Jesús!" said the pious woman to Capitana Tika, "that poor girl has grown up like a mushroom planted by the tikbalang.
But what would you say if I should tell you that he still owes me four pesos, five reales, and twelve cuartos? But who would collect from a rich man like him?" "That gentleman in debt to you?" "Sure! One day I got him out of a bad fix. It was on a Friday at half-past six in the morning, I still remember, because I hadn't breakfasted.
real: One-eighth of a peso, twenty cuartos. sala: The principal room in the more pretentious Philippine houses. salakot: Wide hat of palm or bamboo, distinctively Filipino. sampaguita: The Arabian jasmine: a small, white, very fragrant flower, extensively cultivated, and worn in chaplets and rosaries by women and girls the typical Philippine flower.
And light the lamp of Our Lady of Peace and Protector of Travellers, for there are many bandits about. It is better to spend four reales for wax and six cuartos for oil than to have to pay a big ransom later on." Father Dámaso drove up in front of Captain Tiago's house and the Franciscan stepped to the ground just as Aunt Isabel and Maria Clara were getting into their silver-trimmed carriage.
He knew how to handle them, not like a lot of cranks and little mestizos who are spoiling them by paying three or four reals." "Does your Reverence say that he paid only eight cuartos? Impossible!" The alcalde was trying to change the course of the conversation. "Yes, sir, and those who pride themselves on being good Spaniards ought to imitate him.
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