THE PIED PIPER
No. 10 Fanton Street had become invaded by rats and mice. So, one evening, Mother inquired for advice.
i Billy, laughingly, suggested the Pied Piper. Shirley advised a cat Father had glared over the top of his paper and said grumpily, “We’ll have no cats in this house.” Mother, who knew his anti-cat temperament, soothed him, and after a while he had said, grumpily: I “I’ll ask Timms. His vanished in no time.”
Next afternoon Shirley came from school and at the comer of the road she saw a funny striped cat following, her. “He has an expression just like t’ e Pied Piper,” she thought. She “shooed” him away, but he? trailed behind, or, occasionally, caught up and rubbed himself on her legs, all the way home. By the gate she bent and stroked him, and* said, "I’d love to keep/you, Piper dear.” ' . ■ .
Then she looked round, snatched him up, and walked quickly up the path, and bundled him, surprised, on to some
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 23
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