possessive _of_) to her husband's name.--TR.

[120] The marble-shop of Rodoreda is still in existence on Calle
Carriedo, Santa Cruz.--TR.

[121] There is a play on words here, _Campanario_ meaning belfry and
_Torre_ tower.--TR.

[122] The Roman Catholic decalogue does not contain the commandment
forbidding the worship of "graven images," its second being the
prohibition against "taking His holy name in vain." To make up the ten,
the commandment against covetousness is divided into two.--TR.

[123] The famous Virgin of Saragossa, Spain, and patroness of Santa
Cruz, Manila.--TR.

[124] In 1883 the old system of "tribute" was abolished and in its
place a graduated personal tax imposed. The certificate that this
tax had been paid, known as the _cedula personal_, which also served
for personal identification, could be required at any time or place,
and failure to produce it was cause for summary arrest. It therefore
became, in unscrupulous hands, a fruitful source of abuse, since any
"undesirable" against whom no specific charge could be brought might
be put out of the way by this means.--TR.

[125] Tanawan or Pateros?--_Author's note_. The former is a town in
Batangas Province, the latter a village on the northern shore of the
Lake of Bay, in what is now Rizal Province.--TR.

[126] The Spanish Parliament.--TR.

[127] _Lasak, talisain_, and _bulik_ are some of the numerous terms
used in the vernacular to describe fighting-cocks.--TR.

[128] Another form of the corruption of _compadre_, "friend,"
"neighbor."--TR.

[129] It is a superstition of the cockpit that the color of the victor
in the first bout decides the winners for that session: thus, the red
having won, the _lasak_, in whose plumage a red color predominates,
should be the victor in the succeeding bout.--TR.

[130] The dark swallows will return.

[131] General Carlos Maria de let Torte y Nava Carrada, the first
"liberal" governor of the Philippines, was Captain-General from 1869
to 1871. He issued an amnesty to the outlaws and created the Civil
Guard, largely from among those who surrendered themselves in response
to it.--TR.

[132] After the conquest (officially designated as the "pacification"),
the Spanish soldiers who had rendered faithful service were allotted
districts known as _encomiendas_, generally of about a thousand
natives each. The _encomendero_ was entitled to the tribute from the
people in his district and was in return supposed to p