ESTORED A CALF WHICH A WOLF HAD DEVOURED

9. Once he was tending kine. A miserable wolf came to him. Now this
was a habitual expression with him, "Mercy on us." [He said to the
wolf in compassion][13] "Rise and devour the calf and break or eat not
its bones." The wolf went and did so. When the cow lowed a-seeking the
calf, his mother spake thus to him: "Tell me, Ciaran, where is the
calf of this cow? Let the calf be restored by thee, whatsoever death
it has died." Ciaran went to the place where the wolf had devoured the
calf, and collected the bones of the calf, and brought them before the
cow, and the calf arose and stood up. _Ut dixit_--

One day when, assiduously
Ciaran the kine was havening,
He a calf for charity
Gave to a wolf ravening.[14]

X. HOW CIARAN WAS DELIVERED FROM ROBBERS

10. A certain day there came robbers from Ui Failge to slay people [in
the land][15] of Cenel Fiachach, and they found Saint Ciaran a-reading
with his herds; and they went forward to slay him. But they were
smitten with blindness, and could stir neither foot nor hand, till
they wrought repentance, and were loosed by the word of God and of
Ciaran.

XIV. HOW CIARAN GAVE THE KING'S CAULDRON TO BEGGARS AND WAS ENSLAVED

11. Another time his father sent him to present a cauldron to
the king, even to Furban. There met him poor men on the way, and
[Ciaran][16] gifts the king's cauldron to them. So he was put in bonds
then, and slavery was imposed on him at the king's hands; and this was
the labour put upon him, to grind at the quern. Then great marvels
came to pass, for when he went to grind at the quern, it would turn of
itself, and did so continually. They were the angels of the Lord who
used to grind for his sake. Not long thereafter there came smiths from
the lands of Muma, with three cauldrons for Ciaran as an alms, and
thus was Ciaran delivered from servitude to the king.

XVII. HOW CIARAN WENT WITH HIS COW TO THE SCHOOL OF FINDIAN

12. Now after those things Ciaran thought it time to go a-schooling
to Findian of Cluain Iraird, to learn wisdom. He begged a cow of his
mother and of his father, to take it with him to serve him.[17] His
mother said that she would not give it him. He blessed one of the
kine, to wit the Dun Cow of Ciaran, as she was called thenceforward,
and she went with her calf after Ciaran thence to Cluain Iraird.
Afterwards he drew a line with his staff between them, for between
them there wa