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    The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library
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    The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library
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    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright. Browning was born in London to an abolitionist family with extensive literary and musical interests. He developed a skill for poetry as a teenager, while also learning French, Greek, Latin, and Italian. Browning found early success with the publication of Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835), but his career and notoriety lapsed over the next two decades, resurfacing with his collection Men and Women (1855) and reaching its height with the 1869 publication of his epic poem The Ring and the Book. Browning married the Romantic poet Elizabeth Barrett in 1846 and lived with her in Italy until her death in 1861. In his remaining years, with his reputation established and the best of his work behind him, Browning compiled and published his wife’s final poems, wrote a series of moderately acclaimed long poems, and traveled across Europe. Browning is remembered as a master of the dramatic monologue and a defining figure in Victorian English poetry.

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      The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems Every Boy's Library - Robert Browning

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      Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems

             Every Boy's Library

      Author: Robert Browning

      Release Date: May 30, 2013 [EBook #42850]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN ***

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      There is no Number 8 in the list of books in Every Boy's Library.

      Illustrations have been moved.

      The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems

      Every Boy’s Library

      For Little Boys

      NEW EDITION, 1910

      1 The Man Without a Country By Rev. E. E. Hale

      2 The Bicycle Highwaymen By Frank M. Bicknell

      3 The Railroad Cut By W. O. Stoddard

      4 J. Cole By Emma Gellibrand

      5 Laddie By Evelyn Whitaker

      6 Miss Toosey By Evelyn Whitaker

      7 Elder Leland’s Ghost By Hezekiah Butterworth

      9 Wonder Book Stories By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      10 The Prince of the Pin Elves By Charles Lee Sleight

      11 The Little Lame Prince By Miss Mulock

      12 One Thousand Men for a Christmas Present By Mary B. Sheldon

      13 The Little Earl By Ouida

      14 The Double Prince By Frank M. Bicknell

      15 The Young Archer By Charles E. Brimblecom

      16 Little Peterkin Vandike By Charles Stuart Pratt

      17 Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

      18 A Great Emergency By Juliana Horatia Ewing

      19 The Rose and the Ring By William M. Thackeray

      20 Lazy Lawrence and other Stories By Maria Edgeworth

      21 Forgive and Forget and Other Stories By Maria Edgeworth

      22 The False Key and other Stories By Maria Edgeworth

      23 A Boy’s Battle By Will Allen Dromgoole

      24 The Gold Bug By Edgar Allan Poe

      25 The Pineboro Quartette By Willis Boyd Allen

      26 His Majesty the King and Wee Willie Winkie By Rudyard Kipling

      27 The Old Monday Farm By Louise R. Baker

      28 Daddy Darwin’s Dovecote By Juliana H. Ewing

      29 Little Dick’s Christmas By Etheldred B. Barry

      30 What Paul Did By Etheldred B. Barry

      31 Harum Scarum Joe By Will Allen Dromgoole

      32 The Drums of the Fore and Aft By Rudyard Kipling

      33 The Child of Urbino and Moufflou By Ouida

      34 Hero-Chums By Will Allen Dromgoole

      35 Little Tong’s Mission By Etheldred B. Barry

      H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY

      Publishers

      NEW YORK AND BOSTON

      [Pg 2]

      [Pg 3]

      [Pg 4]

      THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

      Copyright, 1899

      By Dana Estes & Company

      CONTENTS.

      [Pg 8]

      [Pg 9]

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

      [Pg 10]

      [Pg 11]

      THE BOYS’ BROWNING.

      THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.

      A CHILD’S STORY.

      I

      Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick,

      By famous Hanover city;

      The river Weser, deep and wide,

      Washes its wall on the southern side;

      A pleasanter spot you never spied;

      But, when begins my ditty,

      Almost five hundred years ago,

      To see the townsfolk suffer so

      From vermin, was a pity.

      II

      Rats!

      They fought the dogs and killed the cats,

      And bit the babies in the cradles,

      And ate the cheeses out of the vats,

      And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles,

      Split open the kegs of salted sprats,

      Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats,

      And even spoiled the women’s chats

      By drowning their speaking

      With shrieking and squeaking

      In fifty different sharps and flats.

      III

      At last the people in a body

      To the Town Hall came flocking:

      ’Tis clear, cried they, "our Mayor’s a noddy;

      And as for our Corporation—shocking

      To think we buy gowns lined with ermine

      For dolts that can’t or won’t determine

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