One moonless night she went to the river to wash her clothes. She spread
her dress over the bushes to dry while she huddled under it. The evening
breeze was drying her dress and carrying the voice of a little man singing
to himself about his newest trick:
"..I’ll never again need a washing machine,
I’ll just snap and be sparkling clean!"
"Oh, wouldn’t that be just the thing to solve my problem," thought Katie to herself.
Peeking out from under the hem of her skirt she watched the knee-high man approach.
Now everyone knows if you hold on to a leprechaun’s coattails he’ll have to
grant you your wish.
Katie waited for him to dance along the path that came very near her hiding
place and reached out and grabbed the little man by his coattails just as he
was about to prance away.
"Let me go! Let me go!" he yelled.
"Not until you show me how to snap my fingers to get my laundry done without
undressing," she told the little man as she dangled him in the air.
"If I show you how to do the trick, do you promise to let me go?" he asked.
She did and from then on clever Katie was the cleanest girl in town!
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