The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems
- Every Boy’s Library For Little Boys
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THE BOYS’ BROWNING.
- THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. A CHILD’S STORY.
  - I
  - II
  - III
  - IV
  - V
  - VI
  - VII
  - VIII
  - IX
  - X
  - XI
  - XII
  - XIII
  - XIV
  - XV
- HERVÉ RIEL.
  - I
  - II
  - III
  - IV
  - V
  - VI
  - VII
  - VIII
  - IX
  - X
  - XI
- CAVALIER TUNES.
- “HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX.”
- THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR.
- INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
- CLIVE.
- MULÉYKEH.
- TRAY.
- A TALE.
- GOLD HAIR.
- DONALD.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems

Every Boy’s Library
For Little Boys

NEW EDITION, 1910

1 The Man Without a Country ^{By Rev. E. E. Hale}

2 The Bicycle Highwaymen ^{By Frank M. Bicknell}

3 The Railroad Cut ^{By W. O. Stoddard}

4 J. Cole ^{By Emma Gellibrand}

5 Laddie ^{By Evelyn Whitaker}

6 Miss Toosey ^{By Evelyn Whitaker}

7 Elder Leland’s Ghost ^{By Hezekiah Butterworth}

9 Wonder Book Stories ^{By Nathaniel Hawthorne}

10 The Prince of the Pin Elves ^{By Charles Lee Sleight}

11 The Little Lame Prince ^{By Miss Mulock}

12 One Thousand Men for a Christmas Present ^{By Mary B. Sheldon}

13 The Little Earl ^{By Ouida}

14 The Double Prince ^{By Frank M. Bicknell}

15 The Young Archer ^{By Charles E. Brimblecom}

16 Little Peterkin Vandike ^{By Charles Stuart Pratt}

17 Christmas Carol ^{By Charles Dickens}

18 A Great Emergency ^{By Juliana Horatia Ewing}

19 The Rose and the Ring ^{By William M. Thackeray}

20 Lazy Lawrence and other Stories ^{By Maria Edgeworth}

21 Forgive and Forget and Other Stories ^{By Maria Edgeworth}

22 The False Key and other Stories ^{By Maria Edgeworth}

23 A Boy’s Battle ^{By Will Allen Dromgoole}

24 The Gold Bug ^{By Edgar Allan Poe}

25 The Pineboro Quartette ^{By Willis Boyd Allen}

26 His Majesty the King and Wee Willie Winkie ^{By Rudyard Kipling}

27 The Old Monday Farm ^{By Louise R. Baker}

28 Daddy Darwin’s Dovecote ^{By Juliana H. Ewing}

29 Little Dick’s Christmas ^{By Etheldred B. Barry}

30 What Paul Did ^{By Etheldred B. Barry}

31 Harum Scarum Joe ^{By Will Allen Dromgoole}

32 The Drums of the Fore and Aft ^{By Rudyard Kipling}

33 The Child of Urbino and Moufflou ^{By Ouida}

34 Hero-Chums ^{By Will Allen Dromgoole}

35 Little Tong’s Mission ^{By Etheldred B. Barry}

H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY
Publishers
NEW YORK AND BOSTON

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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	11
Hervé Riel	24
Cavalier Tunes	31
“How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”	34
Through the Metidja to Abd-el-kadr	37
Incident of the French Camp	39
Clive	41
Muléykeh	59
Tray	68
A Tale	70
Gold Hair	75
Donald	82
The Glove	90

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

	PAGE
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	Frontispiece
“‘Leave to go and see my wife, whom I call the Belle Aurore’”	30
“I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three”	34
“A rider bound on bound full galloping, nor bridle drew until he reached the mound”	39
“Hair, such a wonder of flix and floss”	75
“And full in the face of its owner flung the glove”	95

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THE BOYS’ BROWNING.

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.
A CHILD’S STORY.

^I

Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick,

By famous Hanover city;

The river Weser, deep and wide,

Washes its wall on the southern side;

A pleasanter spot you never spied;

But, when begins my ditty,

Almost five hundred years ago,

To see the townsfolk suffer so

From vermin, was a pity.

^II

Rats!

They fought the dogs and killed the cats,

And bit the babies in the cradles,

And ate the cheeses out of the vats,

And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles,

Split open the kegs of salted sprats,

Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats,

And even spoiled the women’s chats

By drowning their speaking

With shrieking and squeaking

In fifty different sharps and flats.

^III

At last the people in a body

To the Town Hall came flocking:

“’Tis clear,” cried they, “our Mayor’s a noddy;

And as for our Corporation—shocking

To think we buy gowns lined with ermine

For dolts that can’t or won’t determine

What’s best to rid us of our vermin!

You hope, because you’re old and obese,

To find in the furry civic robe ease?

Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking

To find the remedy we’re lacking,

Or, sure as fate, we’ll send you packing!”

At this the Mayor and Corporation

Quaked with a mighty consternation.

^IV

An hour they sat in council;

At length the Mayor broke silence:

“For a guilder I’d my ermine gown sell,

I wish I were a mile hence!

It’s easy to bid one rack one’s brain—

I’m sure my poor head aches again,

I’ve scratched it so, and all in vain.

Oh, for a trap, a trap, a trap!”

Just as he said this, what should hap

At the chamber-door but a gentle tap?

“Bless us,” cried the Mayor, “what’s that?”

(With the Corporation as he sat,

Looking little though wondrous fat;

Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister

Than a too-long-opened oyster,

Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous

For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)

“Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?

Anything like the sound of a rat

Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!”

^V

“Come in!”—the Mayor cried, looking bigger:

And in did come the strangest figure!

His queer long coat from heel to head

Was half of yellow and half of red,

And he himself was tall and thin,

With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,

And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin,

No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,

But lips where smiles went out and in;

There was no guessing his kith and kin:

And nobody could enough admire

The tall man and his quaint attire.

Quoth one: “It’s as my great-grandsire,

Starting up at the Trump of Doom’s tone,

Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!”

^VI

He advanced to the council-table:

And, “Please your honours,” said he, “I’m able,

By means of a secret charm, to draw

All creatures living beneath the sun,

That creep or swim or fly or run,

After me so as you never saw!

And I chiefly use my charm

On creatures that do people harm,

The mole and toad and newt and viper;

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