You ought not to squander the holy indulgences.

Do as I do." "I thought, so many more the better," answered the simple Sister Juana, smiling.

"But tell me what you do." Sister Rufa did not answer at once.

First, she asked for a buyo and chewed at it, gazed at her audience, which was listening attentively, then spat to one side and commenced, chewing at the buyo meanwhile: "I don't misspend one holy day! Since I've belonged to the Sisterhood I've earned four hundred and fifty-seven plenary indulgences, seven hundred sixty thousand five hundred and ninety-eight years of indulgence.

I set down all that I earn, for I like to have clean accounts.