Transcriber's Note: 

 This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, January, 1960. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. 

 Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained. 

  

   ATTENTION 

  ATTENTION

 ATTENTION

  

   SAINT PATRICK  

  SAINT PATRICK 

 SAINT PATRICK

  

 BY MURRAY LEINSTER (Pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

  

 Illustrated by Bernklau 

  

  Legends do, of course, get somewhat distorted in the passage of time. In the future, the passage across space to other planets may cause a slight modification here and there ...  

  

 President O'Hanrahan of the planetary government of Eire listened unhappily to his official guest. He had to, because Sean O'Donohue was chairman of the Dail—of Eire on Earth—Committee on the Condition of the Planet Eire. He could cut off all support from the still-struggling colony if he chose. He was short and opinionated, he had sharp, gimlet eyes, he had 

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