Synopsis
An Irish orphan, Shamus, meets, during a walk outside the orphanage, an old tramp who talks to him about elves. Subsequently, Shamus meets a real elf and manages to steal his entire treasure; the elf takes revenge with a spell and grows a tail like that of monkeys. The orphan begins with a series of vicissitudes that will end only when he distributes the stolen gold among the poor of the country and then his tail will also disappear.