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If the edge of froth failed to reach his toes, he won. But once or twice the water caught him fairly, and ran rippling over his instep and about his ankles. He was deep in this game when he heard a horn blown somewhere high on the towans behind him. He turned. No one was in sight. The house lay behind the sand-banks, the first ridge hiding even its chimney-smoke.
Piran is said to have journeyed across the seas on a millstone, which is a mythical way of saying that he brought his altar-stone with him. He is supposed to have landed on these drifting sands that perpetuate his name, and to have founded his first cell here, the oratory that still remains in much mutilated ruin among the towans of Perran.
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