XXXI. HOW CIARAN FLOATED A FIREBRAND ON THE LAKE

10. At another time when he was left alone in that island, he heard a

poor man in the harbour asking that fire be given to him. For it

was now the time of cold: but he had no boat whereby to satisfy the

petition of the poor man, though much he desired to do so. And because

charity suffereth all things, he cast a burning firebrand into the

lake, and the heat of love that sent it prevailing over the waters, it

came to the poor man.

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