The leprechaun and the man

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The Leprechaun and the Man.
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Once there was a leprechaun that lived in a small
house at the edge of the forest.
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The leprechaun was a smart fellow but
very greedy. He loved gold.
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He loved gold so much that if no one was looking,
he would steal their gold right out from under
their noses.
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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!
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Perhaps he fooled them because he had such a
warm smile. Perhaps he fooled them because
he was a fast and smooth talker.
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Whatever the case, he always managed to fool
others.
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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.
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The greedy leprechaun started thinking about what
the man had said. He loved gold, gold, and more
gold.
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I want to be the richest leprechaun of all, he
thought.
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Therefore, he went to the man and said, I want
more gold. What can I do to get more?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You see, the man had greedy dreams of his own.
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When the leprechaun was off dreaming about The
gold he would soon have, the man stole
the leprechauns gold and hid it in the
bushes. He left the leprechaun an empty pot.
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However, the man did not notice that others were
watching.
so to trick both the man and the leprechaun,
they re-hid the gold.
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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.
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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.
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As for the mouse and the worm, they shared their
riches with all the poor children of Dublin.
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The moral of this story is -greedy people
get whats coming to them
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and. -never trust a leprechaun or someone just
because he is dressed nice and a smooth talker.
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The end of the story.
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