PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
   the hero of an old German legend, had come to a German town, offered to clear it of the rats which infested it for a sum of money, but after executing his task was unrewarded, upon which he blew a blast on his magic pipe, the sound of which drew the children of the town into a cave, which he locked when they entered, and shut them up for ever.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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