charmed shillin'. Only wan shillin', but the wondher av the purse is this:
No matther how often ye take out a shillin' from it, the purse is niver
empty at all, but whin ye put yer finger in agin, ye always find wan
there, fur the purse fills up when ye take wan from it, so ye may shtand
all day countin' out the shillin's an' they comin', that's a thrick av the
good peoples an' be magic.

"Now Dinnis was a young blaggard that was always afther peepin' about
undher the hidge fur to ketch a Leprechawn, though they do say that thim
that doesn't sarch afther thim sees thim oftener than thim that does, but
Dinnis made his mind up that if there was wan in the counthry, he'd have
him, fur he hated work worse than sin, an' did be settin' in a shebeen day
in an' out till you'd think he'd grow on the sate. So wan day he was
comin' home, an' he seen something red over in the corner o' the field,
an' in he goes, as quiet as a mouse, an' up on the Leprechawn an' grips
him be the collar an' down's him on the ground.

"'Arrah, now, ye ugly little vagabone,' says he, 'I've got ye at last. Now
give up yer goold, or by jakers I'll choke the life out av yer
pin-squazin' carkidge, ye owld cobbler, ye,' says he, shakin' him fit to
make his head dhrop aff.

"The Leprechawn begged, and scritched, an' cried, an' said he wasn't a
rale Leprechawn that was in it, but a young wan that hadn't anny goold,
but Dinnis wouldn't let go av him, an' at last the Leprechawn said he'd
take him to the pot ov goold that was hid be the say, in a glen in Clare.
Dinnis didn't want to go so far, bein' afeared the Leprechawn 'ud get
away, an' he thought the divilish baste was afther lyin' to him, bekase he
knewn there was goold closter than that, an' so he was chokin' him that
his eyes stood out till ye cud knock 'em aff wid a shtick, an' the
Leprechawn axed him would he lave go if he'd give him the magic purse.
Dinnis thought he'd betther do it, fur he was mortially afeared the
oudacious little villin 'ud do him some thrick an' get away, so he tuk the
purse, afther lookin' at it to make sure it was red shilk, an' had the
shillin' in it, but the minnit he tuk his two eyes aff the Leprechawn,
away wint the rogue wid a laugh that Dinnis didn't like at all.

"But he was feelin' very comfortable be razon av gettin' the purse, an'
says to himself, 'Begorra, 'tis mesilf that'll ate the full av me
waistband fur wan time, an' dhrink till a stame-ingine can't squaze wan