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Then Columba left his curse upon them; 'May that, quoth he, 'about which thou art so niggardly be never of any profit after thee'; and this was fulfilled, 'for the books remain to this day, and no man reads them. When Langarad died 'all the book-satchels in Ireland that night fell down'; some say, 'all the satchels and wallets in the saint's house fell then: and Columba and all who were in his house marvelled at the noisy shaking of the books. So then speaks Columba: 'Langarad in Ossory, quoth he, 'is just now dead. 'Long may it be ere that happens, said Baithen.
Afterward one of them a master musician, for all his soiled gray uniform and grimed fingers played a piano that was in the corner, while all the rest sang. It was a strange picture they made there. On the wall, on a row of hooks, still hung the small umbrellas and book-satchels of the pupils.
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