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The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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No, the green! The green one. So.
[Starts to pipe, looking on the book.]

CROWD
( Sure 't is a mad-man!
( But hear him piping!
( What is he doing?

PIPER
[puzzled at their mirth]
What the green one says.--
[A burst of laughter from the crowd. JAN, the little lame boy
on the steps, reaches his arms out suddenly and gives a cry of
delight.

JAN
Oh, I love the Man!

[He goes, with his crutch, to the PIPER, who turns and gathers
him close.

JACOBUS
[to the People]
Leave off this argument.

KURT
Go in to Mass.

JACOBUS
Saint Willibald!
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