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Updated: May 2, 2025
"I believe you're a cluricaun, come all the way from the bogs of Clare! Come here, and take my arm again, or you'll be vanishing into that plantation!"
If he'd been a fir darrig, that's always playing tricks and making trouble everywhere, why, then, of course but he was only a poor cluricaun " "Yes," the King of All Ireland interrupted, "only a poor cluricaun, that does nothing but rob gentlemen's wine cellars and keep himself so drunk that he's of no use when he's wanted for any good.
And a stupid mortal had tricked me twice. It was then I left the rath. It was then I could bear to look at nobody, man or fairy. Then I put on the red jacket and went by myself. After a time I was a lepracaun, and a cluricaun, and nothing at all, as it suited me, and sometimes I lived in a rath with others, as I have in yours, and other times I went by myself.
With laggard grace the tinker stretched his hands over the now empty basket and gripped Patsy's. "Lass, lass what are you thinking of me? Faith! my manners are more ragged than my clothes and I'm not fit to be a tinker. The dinner was the best I ever ate, and bless ye and the cluricaun!"
The bargain was made; and while the tinker devoured one plateful after another with a ravenous haste that almost discredited his previous restraint, Patsy spun a fanciful tale of having found a cluricaun under a quicken-tree.
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