5. When at another time he was feeding the herds of his parents, as
men are wont to do,[1] a cow brought forth a calf in his presence. But
there came a hound consumed with leanness, seeking to fill his belly
with what fell from the body of the mother along with the calf; and
moved with compassion he said unto him, "Eat, poor wretch, yonder
calf, for great is thy need of it." The hound fulfilled the commands
of Keranus, and ate the calf to the bones. As Keranus returned home to
the house of his parents with the herds, the cow, recalling the
calf to memory, went running about lowing. The mother of Keranus,
recognising the cause of its lowing, said with indignation to the
boy, "Restore the calf, Keranus, even though it be burnt with fire or
drowned in the sea." But he, obeying his mother, returned to the place
where the calf had been devoured, collected the bones, and carried
them with him and placed them before the mother [_father_,
MS.], asking his God with diligence to hear his prayers for the
resuscitation of the calf. And God hearkened to the holy one, and
resuscitated the calf in the presence of his parents.