secret place which is near us; it is there the remainder will be
recited." Patrick enquired on the way how "Maximus in regno coelorum"
could be said of a man. Sechnall replied: "It [_maximus_] is put for the
positive [_magnus_]," or because he excelled the men of his race of the
Britons or Scoti. They came then to a place called Dal-Muine, where he,
Patrick, prayed and sat; and Sechnall afterwards sang the remainder of
the hymn; and Patrick heard his name, and thereupon thanked him. Three
pieces of cheese, and butter, were brought up to him from a religious
couple--viz., Berach and Brig. "Here is for the young men," said the
woman. "Good," said Patrick. A druid came there, whose name was
Gall-drui ("foreign druid"), who said: "I will believe in you if you
convert the pieces of cheese into stones"; which God performed through
Patrick. "Again convert them into cheese"; and he did. "Convert them
into stones again"; and he did. "Convert them again." Patrick said:
"No, but they will be as they are, in commemoration, until the servant of
God, who is Dicuill of the Ernaidhe, shall come here." The druid
(_magus_) believed.

Patrick flung his little bell under a dense bush there. A birch grew
through its handle. This it was that Dicuill found, the _betechan_,
Patrick's bell--a little iron bell--which is in the Ernaidhe of Dicuill.
And two of the stones made of the cheese are there; the third one was,
moreover, carried by Dicuill to Lughmagh when he was abbot there. It is
to-day in Gort-Conaidh.

Sechnall asked something for the hymn. "As many as there are hairs in
your _casula_," said Patrick, "if they are pupils of yours, and violate
not rules, shall be saved. The clay of your abode has also been
sanctified by God," said Patrick. "That will be received," said
Sechnall. "Whosoever of the men of Eriu," said Patrick, "shall recite