There once was a beautiful city called Hamlin. It was in Germany past the rivers and on a
mountain. Hamlin was very beautiful
until one day a vicious plague of rats came to invade Hamlin. Rats came every day, black, white, shiny,
thin and fat. Village people went to the
mayor for a meeting but no one thought up a plan to catch the rats. A few minutes later a stranger came in and
said “I am the Pied Piper. If you give
me 1000 dollars after I get the rats out of the town your children will not
pay.”
He had a silver flute, he was taller than the tallest man in
town and had a pink feather. Everybody
was laughing at him but half of the people said, “Yes!”
The next morning the Pied Piper woke up very early so he could
start his work. Pied Piper started to
play his shiny flute. Thousands of rats
came bounding out of every corner to follow the beautiful music. When the water was up to his knees the rats tumbled into the flowing water and drowned.
Pied Piper ran back to town and snarled at the mayor, “I drowned all of
the rats, can I have my 1000 gold shimmering coins please?” but the mayor shouted “No! You only get 50
dollars.”
The Pied Piper disagreed and did not take the 50
dollars. Instead he warned the mayor,
“You get one day to give me 1000 dollars otherwise your children will pay!”
“Ha ha ha! How will
the children pay? Ha ha ha,” laughed the
mayor.
“Cock a doodle doodle doo,” went the cockerel (which is a
type of chicken), the next morning when the Piper woke up he set to work. He wasn’t paid that morning so he played the
shiny flute and all of the children followed.
When they got up to the mountain lots of rock rumbled off a cliff and
everybody was trapped except one boy with sore legs, that was left.
So the moral of the story is to always keep a promise.
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