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Just about everyone knows the stories of the leprechauns. You may not have heard this tale before,

but perhaps you've had some like it. About a person tricked by one of these mischievous creatures.

People saying leprechauns are the shoemakers of the fairies. When they hold their infamous

dances, the fairies spend so much time whirling and jiggling the souls of their shoes wear out.

So they send them to the cobbler just as we do.

Leprechauns are no more than three feet tall and are said to wear the leather aprons of their

trade. If you pass by one who is hard at work, you can hear the tap, tap, tapping of his tiny hammer

as he mends the fairy shoes. Liam had grown up listening to the tales of all of these fantastical

creatures. He knew better than to walk into the middle of a fairy ring. Those strange circles

of grass and mushrooms you may spot from time to time in a meadow.

And he'd never follow the sounds of a luting tune drifting on the evening breeze from a mound

off in the distance. That was how the fairies enticed you to dance with them.

You'd twirl and skip and time would pass. When you came out of the mound, warn and weary,

you'd find that your friends were long gone.

He was also wary of leprechauns. Though they were each rumoured to have a pot of gold hidden

away, retrieving it never seemed to work out the way one might hope. They were tricky fellows

after all. Liam knew you had to watch out for fairies and others of the like.

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