"I further propose that we contract with a troupe of comedians from Tondo for seven performances on seven successive nights.

Seven performances at two hundred pesos a night make fourteen hundred pesos.

Write down fourteen hundred pesos, Senor Director!" Both the elders and the youths stared in amazement.

Only those in the secret gave no sign.
"I propose besides that we have magnificent fireworks; no little lights and pin-wheels such as please children and old maids, nothing of the sort.

We want big bombs and immense rockets.