St. Patrick's Day

Last night I designed this St. Patrick's Day dress. I also wrote a letter and left it for the leprechaun. 

Dear Leprechaun, I really want to know your name, and want to know if you are a boy or a girl, and will you be friends with me? My name is Leslie Rose Watson. I am nine years old and I was born in 2000, February 18th. I was also wondering if you could clean my room and for payback I will let you stay in my house for the spring, and please make a hole in the wall and have a slide and a bouncy trampoline at the end and a treasure map and please give me a rat named Leslie Rose Watson, Jr., a female.

Sincerely. Leslie Rose Watson

P.S. I will help you clean the room if you wake me up.

Well, when I woke up, my room was still messy. Mom was making pancakes and they turned green like the always do on St. Patrick's Day. The milk too! While I was feeling sad about the leprechaun not answering my letter, the printer in my Dad's office started printing and there was a note from the leprechaun, and in green ink! It said: 

Dear Leslie Rose Watson,

        I’m afraid you have me confused with some other magical creature.  We Leprechauns are mischievous and love to make messes – not clean them up.  And we don’t leave presents – we take your things and hide them.  We’re not bad or mean.  We just like to have fun!

        As far as bringing you a rat, you might want to ask the Easter Bunny.  I hear he brings presents sometimes.  But I saw your room.  Where will you keep your rat?  It’s pretty messy in there.  Are you a Leprechaun, too?

        Have fun today finding all the things I and my fellow Leprechauns have been hiding.  Thanks for the offer to stay with you, but I would miss my family.  I’ll come back to visit you again next year!