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ND when they came into the Wood of Daylight-Gone whom did they see there but the one who was in reds and yellows! There was the Pied Piper. He was under a white-thorn tree and the children were all seated around him.

He was not playing to them now—he was just talking to them. Valentine and Golden Hood, John Ball and Baldwin came to the place where the children were seated. They were so bent on listening to what the Piper was telling them that they hardly noticed who had come back.

The three sat down with the rest of the chil-