THE FISHPOND OF ST. FRANCIS. [181]

St. Francis had a little fishpond, where he kept some gold and silver

fish as a pastime.

Some bad people wanted to vex him, and they went and caught these

poor little fish and fried them, and sent them up to him for dinner.

But St. Francis when he saw them knew that they were his gold fish,

and made the sign of the cross over them, and blessed them, and soon

they became alive again, and he took them and put them back into the

fishpond, and no one durst touch them again after that.

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