Green jacket, red cap,

And white owl's feather!

THE LEPRACAUN OR FAIRY SHOEMAKER

Little Cowboy, what have you heard,

Up on the lonely rath's green mound?

Only the plaintive yellow bird

Sighing in sultry fields around,

Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee!—

Only the grasshopper and the bee?—

'Tip-tap, rip-rap,

Tick-a-tack-too!

Scarlet leather, sewn together,

This will make a shoe.

Left, right, pull it tight;

Summer days are warm;

Underground in winter,

Laughing at the storm!'

Lay your ear close to the hill.

Do you not catch the tiny clamour,

Busy click of an elfin hammer,

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