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WHO FOLLOWED THE PIPER

As they looked toward the river they saw the children all going in one direction with the Piper dressed in his reds and yellows going before them. They were going to the country of Prester John where each one would have the lot in life that best pleased her or him. Valentine, John Ball, and Golden Hood shouted to the children, but they were too far away now to hear. And now the three had to think of how they could come to the Emperor's, Valentine's father's, city.

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