Mogey and Smush were taking a wagonload of sweet n' sour haggis into town one day when they encountered a leprechaun. Now this might seem a fantastic event to the ordinary person, but Mogey and Smush were anything but ordinary. They knew this leprechaun well, and his name was Todd.
"Are me eyes going?" Todd said, hopping spryly onto the wagon. "Or is that Mogey and Smush with a wagonload of sweet n' sour haggis?"
"Hullo, Todd," Mogey and Smush chorused dully, for Todd was a bit much this early in the morning.
"And a pleasant day to you as well!" Todd replied, hopping into the seat between Mogey and Smush and crossing his legs energetically.
There are differing opinions as to what happened next: leading Mogey and Smush historian R. Edgar Hoovingburg insists that a bump in the road caused a piece of gold to fall from Todd's money pouch, while recent evidence has been unearthed that suggests Todd may have been fiddling with the coin and fumbled it for no particular reason at all. Either way, a leprechaun coin hit the floor of the wagon and just so happened to bounce into Mogey's lap. And as everyone knows, once you get a leprechaun's gold, you get his powers.
"Yes!" Mogey cried. "Yesssss! I have the power!" He began to magically shoot rainbows across the sky and make shamrocks sprout from the hills far and wide, even though it was still three weeks til shamrock season.
"Gimme that back!" Todd shouted, snatching the coin from Mogey's hand. Immediately the rainbows faded and the shamrocks retreated into the ground. Todd the leprechaun leapt from the wagon and disappearred into a woodchuck hole.
"Hmmm," Mogey said thoughfully. "I probably should've held on to that coin a bit tighter eh?"
Smush merely shook his head disappointedly and returned to the sweet n' sour haggis he was munching.
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