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Five Silly Leprechauns.

The other morning I went for my usual walk in the woods or should I say Fairyland. The sun is shining there is not a cloud in the sky. I saw the usual wild life that roams the woods looking for something to eat. I walk very quietly when I am in the woods and see many of the shy wild animals. Walking along a little trod path I heard what I thought was the tinkling of coins being thrown into a pot. The noise got slowly louder and as I stepped past a large oak tree I saw five Leprechauns sitting in a circle. Each had an iron pot in front of him and one after the other they took a gold coin from a leather bag that hung around their necks. As they tossed the gold coins into their pots they counted out loud.

Each had thirty coins in the pots, upon seeing me they called out that this was a private counting session and I should clear off or they would attack me with their shillelaghs. I laughed out loud at their threats and continued my walk toward the circle. Thirty-one, thirty-two, they carried on throwing the gold coins into the pots. I could not help but ask them why they were throwing the coins into the pots. The answer came that the Leprechaun with the most coins should give the others each a coin because he was the winner.

Shaking my head at such behaviour I carried on walking, when from out of the blue sky a flash of lightning struck right in the middle of the iron pots. The Leprechauns jumped away in fear but it was too late the lightning had melted the pots with the gold coins into one mass of metal. What are we to do asked one of the leprechauns, I have lost all of the gold coins that I have over the years collected for my old age, it is now just molten metal and is worthless to me. The other Leprechauns spoke in the same way it was for them a hard blow. I walked back towards them and asked why they had played such a stupid game with their gold coins? “To pass the time came a sheepish answer from one of them”. I thought for a few minutes then I told them that if they were lucky perhaps the Fairy Queen, Queen Feeana could help them. Telling them to sit quietly and think about what had just happened I walked away.

Her Majesty appeared before me in her usual flash of light and small whiff of smoke. “You have been thinking of me,” she said. I told Her Majesty about the Leprechauns and their counting of the gold coins. Her Majesty smiled and said, “I think it is time that the Leprechauns were taught a lesson”. Going towards the spot where I had left the lamenting Leprechauns, they were still sitting moaning about the loss of their riches. Her Majesty looked at the Leprechauns and asked them why they played such silly games here in Fairyland. In Fairyland gold was practically worthless and had little or no meaning for the fairies. Looking even more sheepish at Her Majesty one of them plucked up the courage to ask Her Majesty whether she could help them. Her Majesty smiled and said, “ I will help you but it will cost you the five cooking pots and from each one of you I will take one gold coin”. They all spoke at once saying that it was not fair to take the cooking pots, Her Majesty could have five gold coins from each one of them. Her Majesty Queen Feeana turned her back on the Leprechauns and started to walk away. “You can have the gold coin from each one of us.” they hurriedly called. Turning again Her Majesty asked them if they were sure that she could have the piece of gold from each one of them. “Yes Your Majesty you may have the gold but why do you want the cooking pots”? “That is my secret smiled her Majesty once again. Taking her magic wand from the sleeve of her dress she waved it at the molten metal and sure enough the gold coins reappeared from the molten metal. The iron from the pots was still one molten mess of metal. “Take your gold coins and leave Fairyland,” said Her Majesty. The leprechauns counted out the exact coins that were now in a small pile on the ground. Each left a gold coin on the ground and then they hurried away from Fairyland. “Your Majesty,” I said why the iron pots you could have had more gold”? Still smiling Her Majesty said the gold was of no use to the peoples of Fairyland it was only the humans and the Leprechauns that needed the metal. The molten iron Her Majesty now waved her magic wand a second time. Five iron pots appeared and these were placed at the edges to fairyland to warn silly Leprechauns that gold was not wanted in Fairyland and that they should if they wanted to count their gold go somewhere else. The gold coins from the Leprechauns Her Majesty gave to me and asked me to give them to any one that was in need. This I have done, now no Leprechaun goes to Fairland to count gold coins, This little story went all over Fairyland and now I have put it so the whole world will know about it.