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Printed around text: "'Go cried the mayor, 'and get long poles! Poke out the nests and block up the holes! Consult with carpenters and builders, and leave in our town not even a trace of the rats!' When suddenly up the face of the piper perked in the market-place, with a 'first, if you please, my thousand guilders!Published New York : A. Wessels Co., ca. 1882. Illustrated by Van Dyck.
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Children's book illustrations

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Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. Browning, Robert, 1812 1889. Pied Piper Of Hamelin
  2. Capes (Clothing)
  3. Costumes
  4. Draperies
  5. Fairy Tales
  6. German
  7. Minstrels

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A wondrous portal opened wide The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood...unable to move a step, or cry From street to street he piped advancing Come in!" the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! [The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.] And the muttering grew to a grumbling...and out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats...gay young friskers "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!" Pied piper of Hamelin The Pied Piper of Hamelin Nto the street the piper stept The little boys and girls ran merrily after First, if you please And at the scarf's end hung a pipe ; And his fingers they noticed were ever straying ["First, if you please, my thousand guilders!"] The Pied Piper of Hamelin Once more he stept into the street [The Pied piper addresses the Mayor and City Council.] [The Pied Piper.] Pied piper of Hamelin [The Pied Piper of Hamelin.]
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