Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 216
nfirmity tokeep up with the others. —As 1 lingered in Hamelin town, on this Octo-ber afternoon in the last October that ever was, 1met a bare-headed little girl with a band of flowersfastened sash-fashion over her shoulder, and fromthis wreath hung six heart-shaped cakes. I askedwhether she knew… … may not havehappened sixhundred yearsago, we know,without anydoubt, that onone certain26th of June,not long ago,this old tradi-tion became a living thing — for did not the bakerswife say that her husbands cousin Wilhelm was thePied Piper, and has not the birthday-child also toldus that she herself,…
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