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N that very place the children stayed. They were counting who had come and who had not come, when John Ball came up to them, mounted on old Baldwin. The children shouted for John Ball, and shouted for Baldwin, the old mill horse.

The Piper had gone. They looked around and around the white-thorn bush, but they could not find him. The Pied Piper had gone without making a sound on his pipes.

Three by three, then, they went into the House of the Old Couple. The house could not hold more than three of them at a time. They drank and they ate out of the never-emptied measures