The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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Their single show with riotings a week.--
Look yonder at your daughter. [BARBARA lingers by the Ark-Tent, gazing with girlish interest at MICHAEL, who gazes at her, his bear-head in his band for the moment.] JACOBUS Barbara! [She turns back, with an angry glance at KURT.] AXEL the Smith [doggedly to them] By your leave. Masters! I would like to know, How did Saint Willibald prevail with the rats?-- That would I like to know. I, who ha' made Of strong wrought traps, two hundred, thirty-nine, Two hundred, thirty-nine. REYNARD [calling] And so would I! HANS the Butcher So please your worships, may it please the Crier, Now we be here,--to cry the Piping Man-- PETER the Cobbler A stranger-man, gay-clad,--in divers colors! |
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