8. One day a certain poor man came to Saint Kyeranus, and begged of
him a cow. Then Saint Kieranus asked of his mother that a cow should
be given to the poor man; but his mother would not hearken unto him.
When Saint Kieranus saw this, he made the poor man accompany him out
of doors with the herds, and there he gave unto him a good cow with
her calf. Now the calf itself was between two kine, and both of them
had a care for it; and as the dutiful boy knew that the second cow
would be of no service without the calf, he gave them both, with their
calf, to the poor man. For these, on the following day, four kine were
gifted to Saint Kiaranus by other folk as an alms, and these he gave
to his mother as she was chiding him. Then he exhorted his mother in
reasonable manner, and she was thereafter in awe of him.