id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18343 Browning, Robert The Pied Piper of Hamelin .txt text/plain 2237 198 96 Printed in U.S.A. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN Anything like the sound of a rat "Come in!"--the Mayor cried, looking bigger: With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And people call me the Pied Piper." "Yet," said he, "poor Piper as I am, If I can rid your town of rats Into the street the Piper stept, And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, Followed the Piper for their lives. Which was, "At the first shrill notes of the pipe, "Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles, The Mayor looked blue; We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, "How?" cried the Mayor, "d' ye think I brook Out came the children running. The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood And the Piper advanced and the children followed, They called it, the Pied Piper's Street-And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice, ./cache/18343.txt ./txt/18343.txt