The band, a large one, consisted almost entirely of boys about fifteen years of age.

Only the director and one among the players were men grown.

At sunrise the national flag was raised, and at seven the church-bells were rung.

Through the afternoon, games of ball and cock-fights furnished amusement.

Among the crowd, at the house of the bride, we had met a little, stout man of about twenty-five or thirty years, who considered himself superior to the other people, and who variously attempted to make himself familiar.