THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. 23

And there it stands to this very day.

And I must not omit to say

That in Transylvania there’s a tribe

Of alien people who ascribe

The outlandish ways and dress

On which their neighbours lay such stress,
To their fathers and mothers having risen
Out of some subterraneous prison

Into which they were trepanned

Long time ago in a mighty band

Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,
But how or why, they don’t understand.

XV.

So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
Of scores out with all men — especially
pipers!
And, whether they pipe us free frém rats
or fr6m mice,
If we’ve promised them aught, let us keep
our promise !