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258 William Butler Yeats
upon these strange men as evildoers. They ac
cuse them of casting an evil spell on their cattle
and disturbing the people s peace. The path of
the crusader is thorny, and Colman, the friar dis
ciple of Paul, though faithful for a time, becomes
discouraged in the face of opposition and persecu
tion. He weakens.
Colman. It s no use stopping waiting for the wind;
if we have anything to say that s worth the people lis
tening to, we must bring them to hear it one way or an
other. Now, it is what I was saying to Aloysius, we
must begin teaching them to make things, they never had
the chance of any instruction of this sort here. Those
and other things, we got a good training in the old days.
And we ll get a grant from the Technical Board. The
Board pays up to four hundred pounds to some of its
instructors.
Paul Ruttledge. Oh, I understand ; you will sell them.
And what about the dividing of the money? You will
need to make laws about that. Oh, we will grow quite
rich in time.
Colman. We ll build workshops and houses for those
who come to work from a distance, good houses, slated,
not thatched. . . .
They wr
ill think so much more of
our teaching when we have got them under our influence
by other things. Of course we will teach them their
meditations, and give them a regular religious life. We
must settle out some little place for them to pray in
there s a high gable over there where we could hang a
bell
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