Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-04-23
ST. PIRAN.

IT'S known well enough how st.
Piran crossed the sea from Ireland on
milestone, and how he landed and
settled on the north coast Of Cornwall,
where he nightly improved the folks
manners and discovered tin for them
and taught them a pretty laziness
which he called The Rapture NV Con-
tmplatin' This was fifty years before
he crew old, and some while before any
bic rush of saints began to pour into
the country; for twas not till the tin
was discovered that they sprang up
thick as blackberries among US, So
that i'm way twas st. Piran's own
fault that his idle ways grew to be a
scandal by comparison with these bust
linz fellows.
The old man had never a notion that
all the holy men from Rome to the
Lands End were holding up their
hands over his case. He sat in his
cottage above the sands at Perranza-
buioe and dozed to the hum of the
breakers, in charity with all his
pensioners to whom his money was
as free as the salt wind This iSep-
ing partnership in the tin-streamng
trade brought him in q tidy SUM every
year, and a growing one, for his junior
partner, St. Chynoweth was pushing
The business wonderfully. AID the
folk knew that if ever they wanted
spiritual counsel they had only to
knock and ask for it.
But one fine morning, an hour be-
fore noon, the whole parish sprang to
jf- feet at the sound OF horn. The
sound was twice repeated, and came
from the little cottage across the
sands.
Ills the blessed Saints eow-hoTu,"
they told each other. Sure, the dear
man must be in the article of death.
And they hurried off to the cottage,
man, woman and child; for twas thirty
years at least since the horn had been
sounded.
They found St. Piran in his arm
chair, looking good for another twenty
Years but considerably fustered, and
with the cow-horn in his hands.
Andrew Penhaligon," said he to the
first man that entered, go you out and
rn- the church bell"
THE man ran off "But, blessed
father Of us, said one or two, we're
a.D here There's no call to ring the
c.nrch bell, seem you're neither dead
nor alire, blessamercy!"
con, if you're all here, that alters
tarra>e; for It's only proclamation /
have to give you, at present. To-
morrow mornin'-Glory be to Cod
at ten in the forenoon / give warnin'
that divine service viii take place in
the parish church. An so you'd best
set to and clean out the edihce, for I'm
lhnkin', he added, "it'll be needin'
that"
You're sartin you're not feelin'
poorly, st, Piran, dear?" asked one OF
the women.
"Iisnt that at all" the Saint an
s"ered, but I've had vision"
Don't you often?"
Sim but this was a particular
vision; or may be bit of small bird
came and whispered it into my ear.
any way, twas revealed to me just
now IN a dream that all the saints were
si'in' together at Bodim and plottin'
against us. There was st. Petroc in
LLhn char, an St. Guron, St. Neot, s.
10y St. Enodar, st. Fimbarrus, S
leath. st, Wen, St. Yeryan, St. Probus,
heyerne St. Just-tho whole passed.
Of EN- An they were agreein there
was no holiness left in this parish of
m.ne. Twas all very well, said ST.
Ne7t. whom his turn came to speak,
oaJ this state O. things ought to be
exposed He's as big as bulls beef,
WAT fellow, ever since he performed
liar miracle over the fishes, and
IaaAons he can disparage an old man
Who was maxim mill-stones to float
Wien he was just able to suck coral.
bal the upshot is that they're goin' to
PAY " a visitation tomorrow, by sur
PRISE, And, if only for the parish
credit, Wen be even wild um, by dad"
r firan only lapsed into his native
lElsh when strongly excited.
but he had hardly done, when An
oFeW Pcnhaligon came running in
>t, Piran, dear, I've looked every
@here am be hanged to me if ! can
~ the church at ALI"
" hats become Of utP" cried the
SAINT sitting up sharply.
low DO ! know? But devil trace
can see
i was there, III be sworn" said St.
That's true word, said the old
man Tor | rememb Der it wei. An
.-ant tower it had, an a shingle
Gahe UP, now said the Saint glar-
round; which w yes gone an
4.s al4 nv parrish church, For won't