9. Once he was tending kine. A miserable wolf came to him. Now this
was a habitual expression with him, "Mercy on us." [He said to the
wolf in compassion][13] "Rise and devour the calf and break or eat not
its bones." The wolf went and did so. When the cow lowed a-seeking the
calf, his mother spake thus to him: "Tell me, Ciaran, where is the
calf of this cow? Let the calf be restored by thee, whatsoever death
it has died." Ciaran went to the place where the wolf had devoured the
calf, and collected the bones of the calf, and brought them before the
cow, and the calf arose and stood up. _Ut dixit_--
One day when, assiduously
Ciaran the kine was havening,
He a calf for charity
Gave to a wolf ravening.[14]