WHO FOLLOWED THE PIPER
table—two beechen bowls that were coated on the inside with yellow wax. He saw the guests fill the bowls from the pitcher and then drink the wine.
But oh, how sorry he was made to feel when he saw one of the guests reach over for the pitcher again. He wanted to tell him that there was no more wine in it. But he felt so ashamed that the words would not come out of his throat. The guest poured wine into the bowl. He filled it up again. He passed the pitcher to the other guest, and he, too, filled up his bowl with wine.
Philemon was greatly pleased that there had been more in the pitcher than he had imagined. And all this time old Baucis was watching anxiously the basket that she had put the fruit and the bread and honey in.
For each time the guests reached over to it she feared that they would find nothing there, and that she would be made ashamed that her cupboard had had no better supply. But every time that one of the guests put his hand into
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