[The Social Cancer by Jose Rizal]@TWC D-Link bookThe Social Cancer CHAPTER XXVI 11/15
Do you see that big space? That will be a lawn for running and exercising in the open air.
The little girls will have a garden with benches, swings, walks where they can jump the rope, fountains, bird-cages, and so on.
It's going to be magnificent!" Then Nor Juan would rub his hands together as he thought of the fame that he was going to acquire.
Strangers would come to see it and would ask, "Who was the great artisan that built this ?" and all would answer, "Don't you know? Can it be that you've never heard of Nor Juan? Undoubtedly you've come from a great distance!" With these thoughts he moved from one part to the other, examining and reexamining everything. "It seems to me that there's too much timber for one derrick," he remarked to a yellowish man who was overseeing some laborers.
"I should have enough with three large beams for the tripod and three more for the braces." "Never mind!" answered the yellowish man, smiling in a peculiar way.
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