The Pied Piper of Oakland
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as you remember, was a story about rats. The City of Brunswick was so overrun with rats, that they fought the dogs and killed the cats and bit the babies and ate the cheese, drank the soup and in general, caused a major ruckus.
So the townsfolk called the Pied Piper in to get rid of the rats. All the rats flocked to him with his nifty little tune on his nifty little pipe. He played his pipe and the rats came running. They didn’t pay him, so he came back, played his pipe and the children came running. They paid him, and he brought the children back and everyone was happy.
Now that story happened “Almost five hundred years ago,” but the story was written a couple hundred years ago, so we think that this is the story of fantasy and make believe. But today, we still have the Pied Piper. Although his spell isn’t too strong. Instead of a pipe, he has a horn. Instead of walking, he drives.
The Pied Piper of Oakland drives around, honks his horn, and people come running out of buildings to see him. They talk to him and the rest of the people out there, and the spell wears off and people go back inside. Here, for your enjoyment, is the first known photo of the Pied Piper of Oakland.
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