The Pied Piper of Vermont:
On or about the year 1284 in the town of Hamelin, Saxony, in what is now Germany, there appeared one day a man who charmed the town’s elders in that he could rid the town of all rats. They agreed to his fee, and he reputedly charmed and led the rats out of the village. This much is an actual historical fact. The town elders reneged on their promise and refused to pay…