The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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OLD URSULA [putting out an ear-trumpet] What does he say? REYNARD [from the Ark] --Oh, how felicitous! HANS' WIFE He's only saying there be no more rats. JACOBUS [with oratorical endeavor] Three days it is; and not one mouse,--one mouse, One mouse, I say!--No-o-o! Quiet. . . as a mouse. [Resuming] And now. . . CROWD Long live Jacobus!-- JACOBUS You have seen Noah and the Ark, most aptly happening by With these same play-folk. You have marked the Judgment. You all have seen the lost souls sent to--Hell-- And, nothing more to do.-- |
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