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To him the Cornishmen owe not only their tin , which he discovered on the spot , but also their divine laziness , which he brought across from Ireland and naturalised here . And I learned his story one day from an old miner , as we ate our bread and cheese together on the floor of Wheal Tregobbin , while the Davy lamp between us made wavering giants of our shadows on the walls of the adit , and the sea moaned as it tossed on its bed , two hundred feet above . * * * * * St. Piran was a little round man ; and in the beginning he dwelt on the north coast of Ireland , in a leafy mill , past which a stream came tumbling down to the sea . After turning the saint 's mill-wheel , the stream dived over a fall into the Lough below , and the _ lul-ul-ur-r-r _ of the water-wheel and fall was a sleepy music in the saint 's ear noon and night . It must not be imagined that the mill-wheel ground anything . No ; it went round merely for the sake of its music . For all St. Piran 's business was the study of objects that presented themselves to his notice , or , as he called it , the `` Rapture av Contemplation '' ; and as for his livelihood , he earned it in the simplest way .