One day, when Dominick was in his study, the devil so pestered him in the shape of a flea, leaping and frisking about on the leaves of his book, that he found it impossible to continue his reading: irritated at length by such unhandsome treatment, he fixed him on the very spot where he finished reading, and in this shape made use of him to find the place again. Having at last, however, released old _nick_ from this demonological dilemma, he appeared to him again in his study in the guise of a monkey, and grinned so “horribly a ghastly grin,” and skipped about so, that he was more annoyed now than before. To put a stop to these monkey tricks, Dominick forthwith commanded him, the said monkey, to take the candlestick and hold it for him; this the monkey did, and Dominick made him continue holding it, until it was burnt down to the bottom of the wick, and although the monkey made a horrid noise at burning his fingers, he was forced to hold it until it was burnt out, which it did until it had burnt the devil’s monkey fingers to the bone. Having gone into France with the bishop of Osma, of whose church Dominick was a canon, though by preaching and working miracles he converted the _Albigenses_ about Toulouse by thousands in a day, he, nevertheless, so roused Simon de Montford, who was general of the Pope’s _cruzado_ against those christians, by which Montfort, and his _cruzado_, to which Dominick was the chief chaplain, that many thousands of those poor christians were butchered. That part of France must necessarily, at that time, have been very populous, otherwise there could not have been so many of those christians left for Montfort to murder, after Dominick had made such extensive conversions among them, for assuredly Montfort would not lay violent hands on any of his proselytes. The greatest conversion ever made by Dominick was after he had the rosary given him by the blessed virgin, whose virtues Dominick successfully eulogized with all the eloquence he was master of. There was one, however, desperate enough to ridicule both the rosary and the mountebank oratory upon its virtues; but he was soon punished for his audacity, by a great number of devils getting into him; but Dominick relenting at the sufferings of the demoniac, although he did not deserve such commiseration at his hands, called the devils to an account for the uproarious noise they made; when the following colloquy passed between them. DOMINICK.—How came you to enter this man, and how many are you in number? DEVILS.—(_After tremendous howlings._) We came into him for having spoken disrespectfully of the rosary; and for his having laughed and made “_merry game_” of your sermons. We are 15,000 in number, and have been forced much against our inclination to enter one who might have done us infinite services. DOM.—Why did so many as 15,000 of you enter him? DEV.—Because there are 15 decads in the rosary which he derided. DOM.—Why did you suffer this man to be brought to me?