you?” and she called to the girl within to bring out a few potatoes.  But He took nine grains of the wheat in His hand and went away; and there wasn’t a grain of wheat left in the bag, but all gone.  So she ran after Him then to ask Him to forgive her; and she overtook Him on the road, and she asked forgiveness.  And He said:  “Don’t you remember the time you had no house to go to, and I met you on the road, and sent you to a house where you’d live in plenty? and now you wouldn’t give Me a few grains of wheat.”  And she said:  “But why didn’t You give me a heart that would like to divide it?” That is how she came round on Him.  And He said:  “From this out, whenever you have plenty in your hands, divide it freely for My sake."’

And this is a marvel that might occur again at any time; for Mary Glyn says further:—­

’There was a woman I knew was very charitable to the poor; and she’d give them the full of her apron of bread, or of potatoes or anything she had.  And she was only lately married; and one day, a poor woman came to the door with her children and she brought them to the fire, and warmed them, and gave them a drink of milk; and she sent out to the barn for a bag of potatoes for them.  And the husband came in, and he said:  “Kitty, if you go on this way, you won’t leave much for ourselves.”  And she said:  “He that gave us what we have, can give more.”  And the next day when they went out to the barn, it was full of potatoes—­more than were ever in it before.  And when she was dying, and her children about her, the priest said to her:  “Mrs. Gallagher, it’s in heaven you’ll be at 12 o’clock to-morrow."’

But when death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.  And sometimes it is not willing to go; for Mrs. Casey says:—­

’The Saviour, one time, told St. Patrick to go and prepare a man that was going to die.  And St. Patrick said:  “I’d sooner not go; for I never yet saw the soul depart from the body.”  But then he went, and he prepared the man.  And when he was lying there dead, he saw the soul go from the body; and three times it went to the door, and three times it came back and kissed the body.  And St. Patrick asked the Saviour why it did that:  and He said:  “That soul was sorry to part from the body, because it had held it so clean and so honest."’

When the hill-people talk of ‘the time of the war,’ it is the war that once took place in heaven that is understood.  And when ‘Those’ are spoken of, the fallen angels are understood, the cloud of witness, the whirling invisible host; and it is only to a stranger that an explanation need be given.