[20.] Vide Rule of 1221, cap. 7. Cf. 1 Cel., 38, and Bon., 78.
[21.] 1 Cel., 36.
[22.] Storia d'Assisi, t. i., pp. 123-129.
CHAPTER VIII
PORTIUNCULA
1211
It was doubtless toward the spring of 1211 that the Brothers quitted Rivo-Torto. They were engaged in prayer one day, when a peasant appeared with an ass, which he noisily drove before him into the poor shelter.
"Go in, go in!" he cried to his beast; "we shall be most comfortable here." It appeared that he was afraid that if the Brothers remained there much longer they would begin to think this deserted place was their own.[1] Such rudeness was very displeasing to Francis, who immediately arose and departed, followed by his companions.