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But tell me pooh ay, is there a thousand quarer things but I say, Biddy, how do you like to live wid this family?" "Why, troth indeed, only for the withered ould leprechaun himself, divil a dacenter people ever broke bread." "Yet, isn't it a wondher that the ould fellow is what he is, an' he so full o' money?" "Troth, there's one thing myself wondhers at more than that."
The stick was made of wood and had a small wire spring, like a mouse trap, which snapped down on his finger and made him yelp with pain. At the same instant the Phoenix's cigar exploded, knocking the startled bird backwards into a bush. "Haw haw haw!" shouted the Leprechaun, rolling on the ground and holding his sides. "Haw haw haw!"
The little creature dashed off like a rabbit into the bog. "Let that be a lesson to you, my boy," said the Phoenix. "Beware the Leprechaun bearing gifts. But I wonder why the thought of the Banshee frightened him so?" They followed the path until they came to the mouth of a cave under a heap of rocks. The Phoenix plunged in, and David nervously followed.
They were a little bit scared. "Do you suppose it might be a Leprechaun?" Eileen whispered. "'Tis a tapping noise they make; not a crying noise at all," Larry answered. "Maybe it's a Banshee," Dennis said. "They do be crying about sometimes before somebody is going to die." "'Tis no Banshee whatever," Eileen declared. "They only cry at night." They heard the squealing sound again.
It was here that everybody remembered about the faery penny; in fact, that was the one thing remembered by all. And this is hardly strange; if you or I ever possessed a faery penny even in the confines of a primrose ring we should never forget it. It was Bridget, however, who reminded the leprechaun.
He had on a drab-coloured coat with big brass buttons on it, and a pair of silver buckles on his shoes, and he working away as hard as ever he could, heeling a little pair of pumps! "You may believe me or not, Larry and Eileen McQueen, but the minute she clapped her eyes on him, she knew him for a Leprechaun. "And she says to him very bold, `God save you, honest man!
And in our own islands we have them too, for the traditions of English giants, and ogres, and dwarfs still linger in the tales of Jack the Giant-killer and Jack and the Bean-stalk, and Hop o' my Thumb; and we have also the elves whom Shakspeare draws for us so delightfully in "Midsummer Night's Dream" and in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; and there are the Devonshire pixies; and the Scottish fairies and the brownies the spirits who do the work of the house or the farm and the Irish "good people;" and the Pooka, which comes in the form of a wild colt; and the Leprechaun, a dwarf who makes himself look like a little old man, mending shoes; and the Banshee, which cries and moans when great people are going to die.
Sure, bad luck to the thing his legs resemble but a pair of raipin' hooks, wid their backs outwards. Let us pass this subject, and come in till we drink a glass together." "And so you call my son a leprechaun, and he has legs like raipin' hooks!" "Ha, ha, ha! Come in, man alive; never mind little Toal." "Like raipin' hooks!
But begob I was just lowering the heel of the pint when I saw the citizen getting up to waddle to the door, puffing and blowing with the dropsy, and he cursing the curse of Cromwell on him, bell, book and candle in Irish, spitting and spatting out of him and Joe and little Alf round him like a leprechaun trying to peacify him. Let me alone, says he.
"But she's our best bet. It's going to be a race between her and the O'Keefe banshee but I put my money on her. I had a queer experience while I was in that garden, after you'd left." His voice grew solemn. "Did you ever see a leprechaun, Doc?" I shook my head again, as solemnly. "He's a little man in green," said Larry. "Oh, about as high as your knee. I saw one once in Carntogher Woods.
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