pipes for a considerable distance, and then conveyed
to taps at convenient spots by iron and lead.
Now there was one of these taps placed outside the Board school. The master said within himself, "If I go to the tap, I shall have to pay the water rate, which will be very heavy; if I never turn the tap, I surely cannot be required to pay. So I know what I will do. Go to! I will draw all my water from the well in the yard of the farm at the back of my premises."
He did so, and lost his wife and child by diphtheria. Verily even modern Board school masters might learn something from these wild old pure water- loving Celtic saints.
Note.—Book on Cornish Holy Wells:—
Quiller-Couch (M. and L.), Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall. London: Clark, 1894.
