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Updated: June 19, 2025
"'The Pied Piper of Hamelin, I don't think, replied the professor, vulgarly, and before I could realize what he was doing he had drawn a reed pipe from his dressing-gown and was playing a strangely annoying air. Then an awful thing occurred.
Barely across the Rio Grande the traveler sees at once hundreds of costumes which in any American city would draw on all the boy population as surely as the Piper of Hamelin.
"To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new," he led us forth to seek the famous fishing grounds on Lake Kenogami. We skirted the eastern end of Lake St. John in our two canoes, and pushed up La Belle Riviere to Hebertville, where all the children turned out to follow our procession through the village. It was like the train that tagged after the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
In this legend, well known to the English world through Browning’s poem “Pied Piper of Hamelin” and Miss Peabody’s play The Piper , the rats are the human souls, which Death charms with his music into following him. In the Middle Ages the soul was often represented as leaving the body in the form of a mouse.
Aunt Vi, being the kindest soul in the world, promised to do what she could. She gave the play of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin," with children for rats; and Eddo was dressed as a mouse, and squealed so perfectly that Edith's cat could hardly be restrained from rushing headlong upon the stage. Later there were tableaux. Edith wore red, white, and blue and was the Goddess of Liberty.
And if he had chosen to establish that 'dernier cri' of modern civilization where ladies go who have 'welt-schmerz' without knowing why, a sanitarium, he might have gained back again all the money he had lost in giving his Grantham stock to Eldon Parr. Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, he could have emptied Dalton Street of its children.
But in the pauses of this activity I see below me wagon loads of nails go by and wagon loads of hammers hard after, to get a crack at them. Then there will be a truck of saws, as though the planking of the world yearned toward amputation. Or maybe, at a guess, ten thousand rat-traps will move on down the street. It's sure they take us for Hamelin Town, and are eager to lay their ambushment.
"And draw all men after them, as the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin' did the rats," said Mr. Rayne. "What are you talking about?" said Mrs. Rayne, joining us at this point. "The pity of it," said her husband, "that beauty is only skin deep." "That is deep enough," said Mrs. Rayne. "Yes, if age and sickness and trouble did not make one shed it so soon," said I ungratefully. "Don't mention it," said Mrs.
Miss Smith told me I could recite anything I chose, but to be sure it was 'good, and that it was not 'beyond me. Well, this is n't 'beyond me. I guess;" and she began: "Hamelin Town 's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover City; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its walls on the southern side, A pleasanter spot you never spied.
There were those who analysed the fact, and explained it on the ground of animal magnetism. For myself, I only know that, as the magic music which Hunold Singref played in the streets of Hamelin, whispered in the ears of little children words of promise, of happiness, of comfort that none others could hear, so, to the emotional heart, Rodriguez's violin spoke a special message.
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