“I’m not,” says the leprachaun. “But I know where there’s plenty hid.”
“You be to discover it for me,” says the lad.
“Let you wait till this one pair of brogues is made,” says the fairy.
So the lad agreed and he sat down to watch him at work.
“Begob,” says he, “I never seen any person could hammer in nails such a rate.”
“It’s a slow worker I’m counted in these parts,” says the leprachaun. “Let you look down into the pit at the man is cobbling below. I warrant it’s three nails he’s driving for each one of mine.”
The lad looked over the edge.
“There is no man in it at all!” says he.
With that the leprachaun let a laugh.
“There is not,” says he.