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The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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But here's no game for Jan.--Stay! Something else.--
[He runs to a wooden coffer, rear, and takes out a long crystal on the
end of a string, with a glance at the shaft of sunlight from the roof.
The Children watch.

Be quiet, now.--Chase not your tails too far,
Till I come home again.

CHILDREN
Come home--come home!

PIPER
And you shall see my--

CHILDREN
Something Beautiful!
Oh, oh, what is it?--Oh, and will it play?
Will it play music?

PIPER
Yes.
[He hangs the crystal in the sun. A Rainbow strikes the wall.
--The best of all!

CHEAT-THE-DEVIL, JAN, CHILDREN
Oh, oh, how beautiful,--how beautiful!

PIPER
And hear it pipe and call, and dance, and sing.
Heja!--And hark you all. You have to mind--
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