8. At another time when he was keeping the herds of his parents in
a certain place, a cow gave birth to a calf in his presence. But a
[hound], altogether wasted with leanness, came, desiring to fill [his
belly] with whatso falleth from the body of the mother with the calf,
and stood before the dutiful shepherd. To which he said, "Eat,
poor wretch, yonder calf, for great is thy need of it." The hound,
fulfilling the commands of Queranus, devoured the calf down to the
bones. But as Queranus returned with the kine to the house, that one,
recalling her calf to memory, was running hither and thither, lowing;
and the mother of Queranus, recognising the cause of the lowing, said
with indignation to the boy, "Quiranus, restore the calf, though it be
burnt with fire or drowned with water." But he, obeying his mother's
commands, making his way to the place where the calf had been
devoured, collected its bones and resuscitated the calf.