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He, too, at nightfall, had come flying low from Faraway Island; and now, with his head tucked behind his wing, was asleep not a rod away from Mother Piper and their three sons. Somehow it was very pleasant to know that they were near together through the starlight the five of them who had wandered forth alone by sunlight.
The cypress had grown steadily, and, at times, its long shadow reached through the door and into the house. Heavily, too, upon her heart, the shadow of the cypress lay, for sorrow seems so much deeper than joy. A figure came up the road, and she turned away, intending to go into the house. Then she perceived that it was Piper Tom, and, drawing down her veil, turned back to wait for him.
Severance and Sargent Piper none of them seemed to fit entirely and yet there must be something perfectly simple, perfectly easy to explain only what on earth could it be?
And indeed I cannot blame him; for, as he said very well upon that Occasion, I do not hear that any of the Performers in our Opera, pretend to equal the famous Pied Piper, who made all the Mice of a great Town in Germany follow his Musick, and by that means cleared the Place of those little Noxious Animals. It was entered at Stationers' Hall as by the duke of Newcastle, but Dryden finished it.
Sometimes, though rarely, a man or woman totters back to a village bearing marks of great age, and is sure that he or she left there only the night before. These wanderers do not know where they have been. They remember only that the bankiva sang sweetly, and they followed it, as the children of Hamelin followed the pied piper. The Crab Tried to Eat the Moon
We had but one trouble all day; when a strolling piper came and sat in the same wood with us; a red-nosed, bleareyed, drunken dog, with a great bottle of whisky in his pocket, and a long story of wrongs that had been done him by all sorts of persons, from the Lord President of the Court of Session, who had denied him justice, down to the Bailies of Inverkeithing who had given him more of it than he desired.
You are a piper, a dancer, a hammer-thrower, and now a runner." "Jack-of-all-trades," laughed Perkins, who, with Mandy, was standing near. "Yes, but you can't say 'Master of none," replied Isa sharply. "Better wait," said Cameron. "I have entered this race only to save Mr. Freeman from collapse." "Collapse? Fatty? He couldn't," said Isa with emphasis. "Lass, I do not know," said Mack gravely.
"If this argument is valid and its validity is self-evident it is impossible to imagine a case that may not be thus explained on psychological principles." Professor Hudson's argument will appeal to the ordinary reader as good. It may be simplified, however, thus: We may suppose that Mrs. Piper voluntarily hypnotizes herself. Perhaps she simply puts her conscious reason to sleep.
For was not the pibroch the famous and pathetic "Cumhadh na Cloinne," the Lament for the Children, that Patrick Mor, one of the pipers of Macleod of Skye, had composed to the memory of his seven sons, who had all died within one year? And now the doors were opened, and the piper boy once more entered. The wild, sad wail arose: and slow and solemn was the step with which he walked up the hall.
Persistently stroking the ends of his moustache with an air of profound abstraction, he made it apparent, as soon as Mr. Piper stopped to take breath, that he was suppressing an inclination to yawn.