Transcript The Leprechaun and the Man. Once there was a leprechaun that lived in a small house at the edge of the forest.

The Leprechaun and the Man.
Once there was a leprechaun
that lived in a small house at the
edge of the forest.
The leprechaun was a smart fellow but very
greedy. He loved gold.
He loved gold so much that if no one was
looking, he would steal their gold right out
from under their noses.
The funny thing was that the animals and people
that he stole from still wanted to be his friend,
because he was so cleaver he made them believe
that someone else had stolen their gold!
Perhaps he fooled them because he had such a
warm smile. Perhaps he fooled them because he
was a fast and smooth talker.
Whatever the case, he always managed to fool
others.
Until one day he met his match…
A handsome, well dressed, and
well mannered man visited the
leprechaun.
“I could make you very rich he told
the greedy leprechaun.”
If only you had some gold to
invest….
The greedy leprechaun started thinking about
what the man had said. He loved gold, gold, and
more gold.
I want to be the richest leprechaun of all, he
thought.
Therefore, he went to the man and said,
“I want more gold. What can I do to get more?”
The man told the leprechaun to hide his
pot of gold at the edge of the rainbow for
everyone knows that a leprechaun is
supposed to put it there.
The greedy leprechaun did not hesitate.
He quickly put his gold at the end of the rainbow
and waited for his fortune to double or
perhaps quadruple.
But the man was as tricky as the leprechaun.
As the leprechaun hid his gold at the end of the
Rainbow, the man hid and watched.
You see, the man had greedy dreams of his own.
When the leprechaun was off dreaming about
The gold he would soon have, the man stole the
leprechaun’s gold and hid it in the bushes.
He left the leprechaun an empty pot.
However, the man did not notice that others
were watching….
so to trick both the man and
the leprechaun, they re-hid the gold.
When the man and the leprechaun each noticed
that their gold was gone, they became very
angry at one another.
The leprechaun stomped
his feet when all that he
found was a pot of
clovers.
The man was as mad as a bull. He threw down the
shamrocks that had been left for him and walked
off deeper into the woods where he hoped he
could find another leprechaun.
As for the mouse and the worm,
they shared their riches with all the
poor children of Dublin.
The moral of this story is
-greedy people get what’s coming to them
and….
-never trust a leprechaun or
someone just because he is dressed
nice and a
smooth talker.
The end of the story.
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