At the End of the Rainbow through the woods, Matt quickly finds himself lost and soon encounters a leprechaun (Frank Delfino) whose beard is caught in a log. Matt, remembering the old Irish legends he's heard from his grandfather, agrees to help the little man on the condition that he give Matt his bag of gold, to which, according to legend, Matt knows the leprechaun cannot refuse. After freeing the little man, Matt soon learns that the seven gold coins in the bag are not ordinary coins, but magic "wishing coins", which only have power when used to do good for others. After warning Matt of
The Pot of Gold and Other Stories more infamous books of short stories, "A New England Nun and Other Stories" (1891), and was in the process of writing one of her novels, these children's stories seemed to prove unimportant for the scholar reader (Westbrook 33). Perry D. Westbrook says of her children's stories, "None of these works are read today, mainly because she created in them no compellingly lifelike characters…Classics for children are even rarer than those for adults” (Westbrook, 33). In “A Jury of Her Peers” Elaine Showalter acknowledges that "The Pot of Gold" received very little attention, stating that “hiding submissive material in the category