There'll be _liam-po_: Carlos the Chinaman will set it up with ten thousand.

Big stakes are coming from Tanawan, Lipa, and Batangas, as well as from Santa Cruz.

[80] It's going to be on a big scale, yes, sir, on a grand scale! But have some chocolate! This year Capitan Tiago won't break us as he did last, since he's paid for only three thanksgiving masses and I've got a cacao _mutya_.

And how's your family ?" "Well, thank you," the visitors respond, "and Padre Damaso ?" "Padre Damaso will preach in the morning and sit in with us at night." "Good enough! Then there's no danger." "Sure, we're sure! Carlos the Chinaman will loosen up also." Here the chubby individual works his fingers as though counting out pieces of money.
Outside the town the hill-folk, the _kasama_, are putting on their best clothes to carry to the houses of their landlords well-fattened chickens, wild pigs, deer, and birds.

Some load firewood on the heavy carts, others fruits, ferns, and orchids, the rarest that grow in the forests, others bring broad-leafed caladiums and flame-colored _tikas-tikas_ blossoms to decorate the doors of the houses.
But the place where the greatest activity reigns, where it is converted into a tumult, is there on a little plot of raised ground, a few steps from Ibarra's house.