like a man down to his thighs, but having legs and feet like an ass;
and Antony only crossed himself and said, "I am a servant of Christ.
If thou hast been sent against me, behold, here I am." And the
beast with its daemons fled away, so that in its haste it fell and
died. Now the death of the beast was the fall of the daemons. For
they were eager to do everything to bring him back out of the
desert, but could not prevail.

And being once asked by the monks to come down to them, and to visit
awhile them and their places, he journeyed with the monks who came
to meet him. And a camel carried their loaves and their water; for
that desert is all dry, and there is no drinkable water unless in
that mountain alone whence they drew their water, and where his cell
is. But when the water failed on the journey, and the heat was most
intense, they all began to be in danger; for going round to various
places, and finding no water, they could walk no more, but lay down
on the ground, and they let the camel go, and gave themselves up.
But the old man, seeing them all in danger, was utterly grieved, and
groaned; and departing a little way from them, and bending his knees
and stretching out his hands, he prayed, and forthwith the Lord
caused water to come out where he had stopped and prayed. And thus
all of them drinking took breath again; and having filled their
skins, they sought the camel, and found her; for it befell that the
halter had been twisted round a stone, and thus she had been
stopped. So, having brought her back, and given her to drink, they
put the skins on her, and went through their journey unharmed. And
when they came to the outer cells all embraced him, looking on him
as a father. And he, as if he brought them guest-gifts from the
mountain, gave them away to them in his words, and shared his
benefits among them. And there was joy again in the mountains, and