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The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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'_Come home, come home, come home_!' But I didn't go.
I don't know where. . . Oh, what a funny dream!

ILSE
Mine was a bad dream!--Mine was a lovely lady
And she was by the river, staring in.

PIPER
You were the little gold-fish, none could catch.
Oh, what a funny dream! . . .
[Apart, anxiously]
No Michael yet.
[Aloud]
Come, bread and broth! Here--not all, three at a time;
'T is simpler. Here, you kittens. Eat awhile;
Then--

[RUDI wakes.]

RUDI
Oh! I had a dream,--an awful dream!

[The PIPER takes JAN on his knee and feeds him, after ladling out
a big bowl of broth from the kettle for the Children, and giving
them bread.

PIPER
Oh! oh! I had a dream!

CHILDREN
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