Because Leprechauns and the rest are real and the Irish are smart.
Nobody has ever been clever enough to keep what they have found.
In the stories, leprechauns protect their gold. However leprechauns are just in folk tales, they are not real.
Leprechauns carry pots of gold with them.
Leprechauns work as shoe cobblers for fairies and are paid with gold. The amount of gold leprechauns have depend two things: How good of a shoe cobbler it is and how many shoe it has mended.Hope this helps.
A common folk tale about leprechauns is that they keep a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Another folk tale is that they are solitary creatures that enjoys playing practical jokes.
Pots of gold
Pot of gold.
pots of gold?!
gold
Leprechauns hide so we don't steal their gold or their luck.
becase they make potatoes from gold and they love gold