ay fur the dhrink he'd
had, got on him an' belted him out av the face till it was nigh onto dead
he was. Then a consthable comes along an' hears the phillaloo they did be
makin' an' comes in.

"'Tatther an' agers,' says he, 'lave aff. I command the pace. Phat's the
matther here?'

"So they towld him an' he consayved that Dinnis shtole the purse an' tuk
him be the collar.

"'Lave go,' says Dinnis. 'Sure phat's the harrum o' getting the purse av a
Leprechawn?'

"'None at all,' says the polisman, 'av ye projuice the Leprechawn an' make
him teshtify he gev it ye an' that ye haven't been burglarious an'
sarcumvinted another man's money,' says he.

"But Dinnis cudn't do it, so the cunsthable tumbled him into the jail.
From that he wint to coort an' got thirty days at hard labor, that he
niver done in his life afore, an' afther he got out, he said he'd left
lookin' for Leprechawns, fur they were too shmart fur him entirely, an'
it's thrue fur him, bekase I belave they were."

[Illustration: "Playing his pranks"]

THE HENPECKED GIANT.

[Illustration: Initial: "The Henpecked Giant"]

No locality of Ireland is fuller of strange bits of fanciful legend than
the neighborhood of the Giant's Causeway. For miles along the coast the
geological strata resemble that of the Causeway, and the gradual
disintegration of the stone has wrought many peculiar and picturesque
effects among the basaltic pillars, while each natural novelty has woven
round it a tissue of traditions and legends, some appropriate, others
forced, others ridiculous misapplications of commonplace tales. Here, a
long straight row of columns is known as the "Giant's Organ," and
tradition pictures the scene when the giants of old, with their gigantic
families, sat on the Causeway and listened to the music; there, a group of
isolated pillars is called the "Giant's Chimneys," since they once
furnished an exit for the smoke of the gigantic kitchen. A solitary
pillar, surrounded by the crumbling remains of others, bears a distant
resemblance to a seated female figure, the "Giant's Bride," who slew her
husband and attempted to flee, but was overtaken by the power of a
magician, who changed her into stone as she was seated by the shore,
waiting for the boat that was to carry her away. Further on, a cluster of
columns forms the "Giant's Pulpit," where a presumably outspoken gigantic
preacher denounced the sins of a gigantic audie