Another Adventure For The Pied Piper

Once upon a time, a plague of cloth eating moths descended upon a town, eating every stitch and scrap of cloth; even the blankets off of beds and the curtains  off of windows and leaving everyone in the town, even the mayor and mayoress completely naked because the moths had eaten all their clothes
And whats worse, it was during late Autumn and so very cold and the mayoress, wearing a barrel round about her because the moths had eaten all her dresses, complained to the mayor,
"This is awful. You're Mayor; you must do something about those moths".
But the mayor didn't know the first thing about getting rid of moths.
Fortunately, however, then a man in motley coloured clothes came skipping into town playing a pipe and going into the town hall, doffing his feathered cap and bowing before the Mayor and Mayoress, he said,
"Your excellency. I will rid you of these bothersome moths if you agree to pay me a hundred golden guineas".
And so the mayor, because he didn't know what else to do, agreed to the Pied Pipers terms.
And then the Pied Piper, going outside, started to play his pipe and, when he did wooden chairs and tables in every house round about, moving their legs, started to dance about and then they danced  out of the doorways of houses and began to form a big pile of wooden furniture in the centre of town.
Then, when he thought the pile was big enough, the piper took out a different sort of pipe; a smokers pipe and, when he lit the pipe and puffed upon it, little dancing flames leapt out of its bowl ; a long line of them and they danced and skipped like little imps in a spiralling line all the way up the pile of wooden furniture like a procession of little torchbearers climbing a hill and when all the flames had settled on the furniture, they started to have a party and the wooden futniture started to burn until, before long it had turned into a raging bonfire.
And when the moths saw the bonfire they were so hypnotised by the flames that, in a big fluttering swarm, they all dived onto it and,their silver silken wings catching fire, the moths were all burned.
Then when the last moth in the town was gone, the piper piped down a dancing line of raindrops, making a noise like a tinkling glockenspiel as they fell, to put the fire out.
However, when the Piper went to the Mayor to claim his money, the Mayor said that the Piper had burned every piece of wooden furniture in the town and that it was he who should pay the town for the damage done.
So then the Pied Piper started to play his pipe but then the Mayor said, with a grin,
"If you intend to steal away all the children, you are wasting your time for, knowing of the famous legend of Hamlyn, I have taken the precaution of having all the towns children locked up in the town jail and the keys to its cells hidden where none but I can find them".
However, then the piper went to the town jail and played his pipe outside and when he did all the children in the jail began to sing like a choir,
"When the piper pied
plays a magic tune
we are like the tide
tugged on by the moon.
We hear his pipe plead
and we can't say no.
Wherever he leads
thats where we must go", they sang.

 

And as they sang, to the amazement of all in the town, the wall on one side of the town jail came tumbling down almost as the walls of Jericho had for Joshua and his horn in days of old then, happily, all the children poured out of the jail and in a big line, skipping and dancing and singing merrily, while he played his pipe, they followed him out of town.