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Updated: May 26, 2025
"How much did you pay for the rice?" "Twenty-five centavos." "How much did you receive for it?" "Twenty-five centavos." "Oh, my husband," cried his wife, "how can you make any gain if you sell it for just what you paid for it." The man leaned his head against the wall and thought. Ever since then he has been called "Mansumandig," a man who leans back and thinks.
She held aside her capital, which was twenty-five centavos, and when she counted the remainder she found that she had three hundred pesos. Mansumandig was greatly ashamed when he remembered that he had not made cent, and he leaned his head against the wall and thought After a while the woman pitied him, so she gave him the money and told him to buy carabao.
One who drinks more than three or four cups becomes like the big monkey that acts silly; and one who becomes drunk is like the pig that sleeps even in a mud-hole." Mansumandig Visayan One day a man said to his wife: "My wife, we are getting very poor and I must go into business to earn some money." "That is a good idea," replied his wife. "How much capital have you?"
When Mansumandig returned with the hemp she spread it in the sun, and as soon as it was dry she tied it into a long thread and put it on the loom to weave. Night and day she worked on her cloth, and when it was finished she had eight varas. This she sold for twelve and a half centavos a vara, and with this money she bought more hemp.
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