Everything went well until the moulds were removed; it is true that in the removal a good deal of hair was pulled out, but no serious damage was done.

When the _peso_ agreed upon was offered, the subject indignantly refused to receive it, demanding five.

I replied that he well understood our agreement: there was his _peso_; if he cared to take it, good; if not, I would keep it; but that to pay five _pesos_ was out of the question.

He thereupon grew angry and boisterously demanded the increased sum.

Several of his friends gathered and backed him in his demand.