Dona Consolacion would then claim that she had seen the curate, disguised in a pina camisa and salakot, walking about late.

Fray Salvi would take his revenge in a holy manner.

Upon seeing the alferez enter the church he would innocently order the sacristan to close all the doors, and would then go up into the pulpit and preach until the very saints closed their eyes and even the wooden dove above his head, the image of the Holy Ghost, murmured for mercy.

But the alferez, like all the unregenerate, did not change his ways for this; he would go away cursing, and as soon as he was able to catch a sacristan, or one of the curate's servants, he would arrest him, give him a beating, and make him scrub the floor of the barracks and that of his own house, which at such times was put in a decent condition.

On going to pay the fine imposed by the curate for his absence, the sacristan would explain the cause.