A tome of legendary lore lay open at the history of the Piper of Hamelin.

Débutantes bloomed and were duly culled by aged connoisseurs of such wares, or by youthful aspirants with the means to pay the piper in the form of a handsome settlement.

[Reenter the PIPER from the thickets.]

You've been willing to pay the piper for the sake of the dance, but no one else would do it.

And there were pipers with them, too, skirling a tune as I stepped ashore.

"I have heard of the packet and amulet from Doctor Hodges," said Thirlby, "and should have visited the piper on my recovery from the plague, but I was all impatience to behold Nizza, and could not brook an instant's delay.

On the principle that you can't have the services of a good piper without paying proportionately dear for them, so you can't obtain a handsome chapel except by confronting a long bill.

CHILDREN Oh! PIPER Like fire-flies!

CRILLY He's the blind piper out of the workhouse, Myles Gorman.

In isto nemore habetur piper per istum modum.

The practical knowledge of the stage which this gifted enfant terrible of literature contributed was doubtless of great value in the early days of the dramatic adventure, though Moore's free thoughts, frank speech, and mordant irony brought an element of discord into Dublin literary circles, which may well have left Yeats and his associates with a feeling that they had paid too dear for a piper to whose tunes they refused to dance.

"Andlookoutforthebig slides!" called Mr. Piper after them, as the steamer swung away from the pier.