clear their cit-y of all the rats. So
he be-gan to play up-on his flute,
and in a trice ‘great rats, small rats,
lean rats, brown rats, black rats,
gray rats from all parts
€@ of the cit-y came troop-
i, ing af-ter the Pip-er.”
: “How = fun-ny

   

Art , they must have
al * looked!” laughed
Ate

LC Jill.

“THE RAT-CATOHER'S HOUSE, “oT have no
doubt they did, but the fun-ni-est
and best part of it all was this: as
soon as the Pip-er came to the riv-er
We-ser, he took one step for-ward,
and therats jumped in-to the wa-ter!”

“And were they all drowned?”
asked Jill.