Laboulaye, Edouard, 1811-1883, McCandlish, Edward G., ill · New York : Harper · leaf 130
dropped his pipe, opened his eyes,and glided, bewildered, down the gallows. His firstthought, however, was for his ducats. He rummaged hispockets and turned his hat inside out, but all in vain;there was not even a kreutzer! My friend, said the peasant, making the sign of thecross, God has punished… … SWANDA, THE PIPER preserved him from such peril, he took the fatal pipe towhich the devil had danced, and suspended it as a votiveoffering in the church of Strakonic, his birthplace, whereit may be seen to this day. The pipe of Strakonic hasbecome a proverb, and it is even said that its sound…
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