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It will, therefore, be understood that when the Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora acted in the manner about to be recorded, they were not prompted by any lewd passion for revenge, but were merely striving to reconstruct a rhythm which was their very existence, and which must have been of direct importance to the Earth. Revenge is the vilest passion known to life.
They thronged out to meet the Philosopher's approach and welcomed him with every appearance of joy. With them was the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath, who embraced her husband tenderly and gave thanks for his escape. "The night is young yet," remarked one of the Leprecauns. "Let us sit down here and talk about what should be done."
From north and south they came, and from east and west, bright and happy beings, a multitude, without fear, without distraction, so that soon the hill was gay with their voices and their noble raiment. Among them came the people of the Lupra, the ancient Leprecauns of the world, leaping like goats among the knees of the heroes.
It was a powerful advice you gave me about the washboard, and if I didn't come here to thank you before this it was not because I didn't want to come, but that I couldn't move hand or foot by dint of the cruel rheumatism put upon me by the Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora, bad cess to them for ever: twisted I was the way you'd get a squint in your eye if you only looked at me, and the pain I suffered would astonish you."
When the Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora found they were unable to regain their crock of gold by any means they laid an anonymous information at the nearest Police Station showing that two dead bodies would be found under the hearthstone in the hut of Coille Doraca, and the inference to be drawn from their crafty missive was that these bodies had been murdered by the Philosopher for reasons very discreditable to him.
"Why wouldn't I go with you?" said the Philosopher, and he turned aside with the Leprecaun. They pushed softly through a gap in the hedge and into a field beyond. "Come this way, sir," said his guide, and the Philosopher followed him across the field. In a few minutes they came to a thick bush among the leaves of which the other Leprecauns were hiding.
He gave the needles and wool to Brigid Beg. "Do you know how to turn the heel, Brigid Beg?" said he. "No, sir," said Brigid. "Well, I'll show you how when you come to it." The other six Leprecauns had ceased work and were looking at the children. Seumas turned to them. "God bless the work," said he politely.
"Then you had better have some," and the Leprecaun took a piece of griddle bread from the shelf and filled two saucers with milk. While the children were eating the Leprecauns asked them many questions "What time do you get up in the morning?" "Seven o'clock," replied Seumas. "And what do you have for breakfast?" "Stirabout and milk," he replied. "It's good food," said the Leprecaun.
They could, of course, have called an extraordinary meeting of the Sheogs, Leprecauns, and Cluricauns, and presented their case with a claim for damages against the Shee of Croghan Conghaile, but that Clann would assuredly repudiate any liability on the ground that no member of their fraternity was responsible for the outrage, as it was the Philosopher, and not the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath, who had done the deed.
They went past the big tree of the Leprecauns, through a broken part of the hedge and into another rough field. The sun was shining gloriously. There was scarcely a wind at all to stir the harsh grasses. Far and near was silence and warmth, an immense, cheerful peace. Across the sky a few light clouds sailed gently on a blue so vast that the eye failed before that horizon.
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