WHO FOLLOWED THE PIPER
He was dressed in reds and yellows, his right side and his left leg being in yellow, and his right leg and his left side being in red. He had on a round hat that had something like a goose's wing at each side of it. His face was soft and round, but his eyes were dark, and they had, if one looked close enough, a sort of command in them. He carried bagpipes.
"Did you ever see him before. Sergeant!" asked the Mayor.
"Never," said the Sergeant. "He seems to be only a sojourner here."
"And yet I have been a long time in the world," said the fellow.
"What name are you called by?" said the Mayor.
"One name and another," said the fellow, "but I doubt if you ever heard any of my names. You may call me the Pied Piper."
It was a good name to call him; he was a piper by the bagpipes he carried, and he was pied by the different colors he wore in his dress.
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