¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them
church, cven while thè sacred office was lbeing sang, and the Word of Grod preaehecl. Ä day came ; it was a great feast, but they drove their profane sport as usuai, and no one said thein nay ; 1 and so a great flood rose up through the floor ; rose above tlieir heads ; above the cliureh roof ; above the church st ec pie : and they say that even now, on a bright cairn day, yon may see the gilt ball of thè steeple shilling under thè waters, and in the still moonshine you may bear the bell ring
, at best into a mere ‘ Cathedral Service/ . . . . , it cannot he wondered at that the . reverence, which all the splendonr of the old ritual co ulti not maintain, died away altogether as Puri tan isrn rose in the ascendant, 1 Mr. Long- man, ho wo ver ( The Three Caiheclrals, p. 54- 6), quotes the very stringent regulatione which were issned for the repression of such practices: perhaps the legend constructor would say, these afford the reason why, thongh St. Paui’s was profaned like the church