Excerpt from The Leprechaun of Killmeen Well, as luck would have it, the sorra soul was coming along the road, and all of a sudden the Leprechaun jumped down out of the stone, took one race across the road like a rabbit, climbed up on the ditch about five yards from where I was stretched, an' putting his wee arm about an oul' hawthorn bush, looked about him on every side to see was there any danger. Faith, when I saw the little legs working like lightning as the Leprechaun took across the road, I had as much as ever I could do to keep from giving a scorth of a laugh out of me. 'twas only the thoughts of me crock of gold that made me keep it in. I kept up the snoring and the sleeping moryah, but I can tell you it was no joke to do that same. But, an' oul' dog for the hard road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.