Another time he went into the same hermitage, and remained there for another space of forty nights without any food or drink beyond this, that a doe used to come to him and of her own accord drop her milk into a stone bowl or hollow which was at the door-post of the hermitage in which he was; as is shown by the following verse from the poem on Mac Creiche:
- The doe would come
To the stone chamber;
She would drop into the bowl
Her milk for Mac Creiche.- A bowl of stone he had
In the hermitage assuredly;
In it for the modest cheerful clerk
The doe would drop her milk.