5. A certain day evil men incited a savage hound against Ciaran, to
tear him. When Ciaran saw the hound, he sang this verse: _Ne tradas
bestiis animam confitentem tibi._ And when he said this the hound fell
forthwith and did not rise again.
VI. HOW CIARAN AND HIS INSTRUCTOR CONVERSED THOUGH DISTANT FROM ONE
ANOTHER
6. This was the labour that his parents used to lay upon him, namely,
herding, after the likeness of David son of Jesse, and of Jacob,
and of the elders thenceforth, for God knew that he would be a wise
shepherd of great flocks, that is, the flocks of the Faithful.
Thereafter a marvellous thing took place at Raith Cremthainn in Mag
Ai: he was keeping the flocks of [his parents at Raith Cremthainn, and
there was dwelling][10] his tutor, deacon Uis, at Fidharta, and there
was a long space between them: yet he used to hear what his tutor was
saying as though they were side by side.