Greenie Leprechaun’s Gold coins

A leprechaun made a hole in the tree trunk and lived there for many years. His name was Greenie. Greenie was just 2 feet tall. He had orange hair and suits him up with green pants, white shirt and a green coat. He wears green pointed shoes.

Greenie is a shoe maker. He makes shoes for men, women, fairies and witches. The hand crafted shoes comes in three different colors – Green, Gold and Lavender. A wide range of shoes were cobbled by him. Some are pointed toes, some box heels, some high heels and some no heels. People loved his craftsmanship.

Greenie has some magical powers too. He can grant three wishes to people he like or helped him in some way. Greenie also had the ability to see where the rainbow ends.

Greenie got a gold coin for every pair of shoe he made. It was exclusive and liked by everyone. Even the fairies from mushroom land and witches from haunted house gave him gold coins for their customized shoes.

Greenie keeps all the gold coins in a big metal pot. His pot was getting filled as he made more new shoes for more customers. He is a miser.  He won’t spend or share the money with any.

Once a man named Peter came to Greenie’s shoes shop. He asked Greenie to make a pair of shoes for him. Peter also told him that the shoes would be Lavender blue with thick heels. Peter peeped inside Greenie’s house and found the place where the big metal pot of gold coins kept. Peter wanted all the gold for him. Within seconds, he started to day dream of a rich life.

Peter told Greenie that, after three day he would come and collect the shoes. Greenie could sense something strange about Peter and the way he peeped and looked at his gold coins.

When Peter left, Greenie buried the metal pot in a field filled with berry bushes.

On the third day, Peter came back to see Greenie and get the shoes from him. Greenie neatly packed the lavender blue shoes and gave it to Peter.

Peter gave him a gold coin. When Greenie was about to hide the gold, Peter caught hold and threatened Greenie to give him the three wishes. Greenie gave Peter what he asked for.

The first wish, Peter asked Greenie to show where the metal pot with gold coins is.

The second wish, Peter asked for a hundred pair of new shoes.

And the last wish was he wanted three more wishes.

Greenie said “I can grant you the first two wishes but the third wish won’t be granted as you are so greedy”. Greenie took Peter to the berry field and showed him the place where the pot is hidden. The greedy Peter didn’t have a shovel to dig so he marked the place by inserting a stick to the ground and put one of his lavender blue shoe on the top. He went back home to get the shovel.

When Peter retuned back, he saw puzzled. There were 100 sticks and 100 shoes inserted all over the field. Now he couldn’t find the exact place of hidden pot. Peter understood that he was tricked by Greenie, the leprechaun.

Greedy Peter started to dig many holes all over the field to find the gold. But it was all vain. He couldn’t find it. He tried to collect the shoes but it disappeared one after another.

Meanwhile, Greenie carried his metal pot in a wheel barrow and was thinking about the best place to hide it.

Then an idea struck him. He buried his pot with golden coin at the end of a rainbow because no one could never find where the rainbow ends. And Greenie only knows how to find it again.

Moral: He who wants everything every time will lose anything at any time. Greediness makes a man/woman blind and foolish and makes him/her a victim for sufferings