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 He was dressed in reds and yellows, his right side and his left leg being in yellow, and his right leg and his left side being in red. He had on a round hat that had something like a goose's wing at each side of it. His face was soft and round, but his eyes were dark, and they had, if one looked close enough, a sort of command in them. He carried bagpipes.

"Did you ever see him before. Sergeant!" asked the Mayor.

"Never," said the Sergeant. "He seems to be only a sojourner here."

"And yet I have been a long time in the world," said the fellow.

"What name are you called by?" said the Mayor.

"One name and another," said the fellow, "but I doubt if you ever heard any of my names. You may call me the Pied Piper."

It was a good name to call him; he was a piper by the bagpipes he carried, and he was pied by the different colors he wore in his dress.