One day Saint Mochoma came from the province of Connacht and found the boy Fintán at Uisnech of Meath (Uisnech Hill) and blessed the boy. But the boy wanted to go to read with Comgall and left with him. As they walked along the way and celebrated the third hour of the day (Terce) by Ath Féne the boy Fintán asked for a drink of water in the great heat of the sun. Comgall said to him:
‘Wait until the middle of the day’.
For on that day Comgall and his company were very hungry on their journey and no one offered them hospitality. When they celebrated the hour of midday (Sext) by Glaisi Aisil, again the boy asked for a drink of water, and Comgall said to him: ‘Wait a little, until Nones’.
They celebrated Nones by Comar da Glas, and Comgall told Fintán to wait without drink until Vespers. When it was Vespers Comgall came upon a great feast prepared for him on the road by the Lord, and the best liquor. Then Comgall said:
‘What we have done today was fortunate for us, that we chastised Christ's Amiable by thirst, for thanks to the thirst of this very [boy] this excellent feast has been sent to us by Christ after a great hunger. Now fill my cup and give [it] to the boy, who occasioned this feast for the hungry’.
Then the boy Fintán read with Comgall and studied the rule.