he statutes in a loud voice and reminded the electors of
their duty to act in accordance with their consciences and to heed
only the welfare of the town, the electors move to a table and write
three names on a slip of paper. The person receiving a majority
of votes is declared elected gobernadorcillo for the ensuing year,
provided that there is no protest from the curate or the electors,
and always conditioned upon the approval of the superior authority
in Manila, which is never withheld, since the influence of the curate
is enough to prevent an unsatisfactory election."--TR.

[53] St. Barbara is invoked during thunder-storms as the special
protectress against lightning.--TR.

[54] In possibility (i.e., latent) and not: in fact.--TR.

[55]

"For this are various penances enjoined;
And some are hung to bleach upon the wind;
Some plunged in waters, others purged in fires,
Till all the dregs are drained, and all the rust expires."

Dryden, _Virgil's Aeneid_, VI.

[56] "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."--Luke xxiii, 43.

[57] It should be believed that for some light faults there is a
purgatorial fire before the judgment.

[58] Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth.--Matt, xvi, 19.

[59] Even up to purgatory.

[60] Dream or reality, we do not know whether this may have happened
to any Franciscan, but something similar is related of the Augustinian
Padre Piernavieja.--_Author's note_.

Fray Antonio Piernavieja, O.S.A., was a parish curate in the province
of Bulacan when this work was written. Later, on account of alleged
brutality similar to the incident used here, he was transferred
to the province of Cavite, where, in 1896, he was taken prisoner
by the insurgents and by them made "bishop" of their camp. Having
taken advantage of this position to collect and forward to the
Spanish authorities in Manila information concerning the insurgents'
preparations and plans, he was tied out in an open field and left to
perish of hunger and thirst under the tropical sun. See _Guia Oficial
de Filipinas_, 1885, p. 195; _El Katipunan o El Filibusterismo en
Filipinas_ (Madrid, 1897), p. 347; Foreman's _The Philippine Islands_,
Chap. XII.--TR.

[61] The Philippine civet-cat, quite rare, and the only wild carnivore
in the Philippine Islands.--TR.

[62] The common crowd is a fool and since it pays for it, it is proper
to talk to it foolishly to please it.

[63] "The sc