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But then the Piper turns again . He walks to the west , away from the river . He walks to a big hill . Its name is Koppelberg Hill . And the children follow him . The mothers and fathers watch . Now they are happy again . “ He can’t get over the top of that big hill ! ” they say . “ He must stop playing , and then our children will stop too ! ” The Piper walks up to the side of the hill . And then something strange happens . A door opens in the side of the hill . It is a big , wide door , like the door of a cave . The Piper walks in , and the children follow him . One child goes in , and then another , and another . At last all the children are inside . Then the door in the hill closes . It shuts tight . VII . The Boy Who Could Not Dance Do all the children go into the hill ? No , not all of them . One little boy is lame . He has a bad foot , and he can’t walk fast . He tries and tries . But he can’t dance all the way up the hill with the others . When the door closes , he is still outside . He stands alone on the side of the hill . The music stops . Everything is very , very quiet . The mothers and fathers of Hamelin run up the hill . They look for the door , but there is no door now . There is only the little lame boy . “ Where are the other children ? ” they cry . “ Where are they ? ” “ They went into the hill , ” says the boy . “ There was a door , and they all went in . And then the door closed . I was too slow . ” The years go by . The lame boy grows up . He is a man now , but he is often very sad . Sometimes people ask him , “ Why are you so sad ? ” And then he says , “ Our town is so quiet now , without my friends . It is always quiet . I can’t forget them . And I can’t forget all the beautiful things they can see now . The Piper promised them to me too . ” “ What did he promise ? ” people ask . “ He talked about a happy land , ” says the man . “ It was right next to our town . He said there was fresh water everywhere . There were trees full of fruit . The flowers were more beautiful than our flowers . Everything was new and strange . ” He looks up at the hill . “ In that land , even the little brown birds were bright , ” he says . “ They were brighter than our peacocks . The dogs ran faster than our deer . The bees did not sting . And the horses had wings , like eagles . And I thought , ‘ Soon my bad foot will be well ! ’ ” “ And then ? ” people ask . “ And then the music stopped , ” he says . “ I stood still , and I was outside the hill . I was all alone , and I did not want to be alone . Now I walk slowly with my bad foot , just like before . And I will never hear about that land again . ”
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