The Mischievous Leprechaun and the Giant Trap
There was a boy named Max. He was Irish, and like all Irish stuff, he loved St. Patrick's Day. As St. Patrick's Day came close, he started making a Leprechaun trap, using cardboard boxes, shiny objects, and colorful ribbons. After making the trap, he ate his dinner—a hearty meal of Irish stew—and went to sleep, excitement bubbling in his chest. The next morning when he woke up, he saw that his whole room was a mess, with glitter scattered like stars across the floor and confetti adorning every corner.
There was a leprechaun named Finn. He loved making messes. Whichever house was super clean, he loved making a mess in those houses. And he loved making messes in Max’s house because Max had just cleaned the whole house the day before. Finn would giggle mischievously as he scattered pots and pans, rearranged furniture, and left tiny footprints of green paint across the pristine white walls, his laughter echoing through the halls long after he had vanished.
So Max cleaned the house again, making it all nice and tidy. But Finn came back and messed it up once more. Max got fed up with cleaning all the time. He talked to his family about it, and together they decided to make a big trap. They used stuff from around the house to build it. Their plan was to catch Finn and stop the messiness for good.
Max thought his leprechaun trap is not going to work, so he took his stuffed toys and dropped it into the trap.
One night, Max decided to stay awake for the whole night and sleep during the day. When the night came, he stayed awake all night in his room, looking after the trap. At 1:00 am, the leprechaun came. Max sat still and didn’t want to attract attention from Finn. Finn was attracted to all the gold inside the leprechaun trap, so he went inside and tried to get all the gold. As he was trying to get the gold, the trap closed, and he got locked inside. Since the trap was big and Finn was tiny, he couldn’t get out.
As Finn was trapped, Max asks Finn “Why are you causing mess in my house?” Finn replies to that “I am a leprechaun, that’s what I do. I like to make mess in people’s houses.” Max asks “It looks like, you cause the most mess in my house”. The leprechaun says that “Your house is so clean, I just like to make it more messy and I enjoy doing it more here”. Max proposes Finn, if you promise to not make any more messes in my home, I can let you go. Finn agrees to it.
Keeping his promise, Max lets Finn go, and Finn never makes a mess Max’s house again, though he did came back to take the gold from Max’s home.
Happy St. Patrick’s day.