Sybil Bruncheon's Strange Tales for St. Patrick's Day...

Fitzherbert O'Dunnoch the Duke of Sutcliffe-Welles and his wife Countess Cornelia had a terrible secret, kept through most of the 17th and 18th centuries... and only hinted at in the beginning of the 20th.. but by 1914 they were finally forced to emigrate from their native and much belovéd Ireland...

They were, in fact... Leprechauns!... tall, yes... but genetically Leprechauns, of very old, and respected lineage. Indeed, there was some evidence that they both, through very different bloodlines, were related to the very earliest Leprechaun royalty; perhaps even King Sheamus I... and Queen Fionulla the Fair. O'Dunnoch and his wife escaped persecution on the R.M.S. Queen of Ireland... Sadly, they perished along with 1,010 other passengers on May 29, 1914 when the ship collided with the Norwegian cargo ship, the Storstad near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. With their deaths, no other evidence has been presented that Leprechauns still exist, although many people still suspect they are about, especially among show-business persons... and royalty of smallish nations. (postscript: O'Dunnuch and Cornelia died childless... or so we have been told...)

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