"Perhaps I have as much as you have yourself," said Paddy. "I'll be here to-morrow with the money, if you're ready to give me possession."
"I'll be ready," said the gentleman.
Paddy went home and told his wife that he had bought a large house and a holding of land.
"Where did you get the money?" says the wife.
"Isn't it all one to you where I got it?" says Paddy.
The day on the morrow Paddy went to the gentleman, gave him the money, and got possession of the house and land; and the gentleman left him the furniture and everything that was in the house, into the bargain.
Paddy remained in the house that night, and when darkness came he went down to the cellar, and he saw a little man with his two legs spread on a barrel.
"God save you, honest man," says he to Paddy.
"The same to you," says Paddy.
"Don't be afraid of me, at all," says the little man. "I'll be a friend to you, if you are able to keep a secret."