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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