Now it happened that in Spain there was a farm-labourer named Isidore, who went daily to his early prayer, whatever the weather might be.  His fellow-workmen were slothful and careless, and they gibed and jeered at his piety, but when they found that their mockery had no effect upon him, they spoke spitefully of him in the hearing of the master, and accused him of wasting in prayer the time which he should have given to his work.