The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Rats have taken Hamelin down to the cradles when a stranger in a coat of half yellow and half red offers, for a thousand guilders, to rid the town of every one of them. The corporation agrees on the spot, watches the pipe do exactly what was promised, and then reconsiders the sum now that the difficulty has passed. Browning wrote it in 1842 to amuse the bedridden son of the actor William Macready, working from the account in Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the Little World rather than from any German telling.
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