The Leprechaun

*By Ernestine Cobern Beyer

I met a little leprechaun.
He gasped and quavered: "Ooo!
I'm seeing things! Be off! Be gone!
There's no such thing as you!

"You can't be real, you ugly thing,
So I'm not scared," he said,
"Though you have neither tail nor wing,
Nor horns upon your head!"

I looked at him, then ran, my dear,
As would, I think, have you,
'Cause people sometimes disappear
When leprechauns say: "Boo!"

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*From the wonderful book of
poetry for children,
Read Me a Rhyme, Please! 

And with many, many thanks to
Ernestine's daughter, Barbara
Beyer Malley, for permission to
post:) *K*s