`` Oh , Mary , '' said Una , awe-struck . `` I do -- true 's you 're alive . There was an old man at Mrs. Wiley 's one day last fall . He looked old enough to be ANYTHING . She was asking him about cedar posts , if he thought they 'd last well . And he said , ` Last well ? They 'll last a thousand years . I know , for I 've tried them twice . ' Now , if he was two thousand years old who was he but your Wandering Jew ? '' `` I do n't believe the Wandering Jew would associate with a person like Mrs. Wiley , '' said Faith decidedly . `` I love the Pied Piper story , '' said Di , `` and so does mother . I always feel so sorry for the poor little lame boy who could n't keep up with the others and got shut out of the mountain . He must have been so disappointed . I think all the rest of his life he 'd be wondering what wonderful thing he had missed and wishing he could have got in with the others . '' `` But how glad his mother must have been , '' said Una softly . `` I think she had been sorry all her life that he was lame . Perhaps she even used to cry about it . But she would never be sorry again -- never . She would be glad he was lame because that was why she had n't lost him . '' `` Some day , '' said Walter dreamily , looking afar into the sky , `` the Pied Piper will come over the hill up there and down Rainbow Valley , piping merrily and sweetly .
And I will follow him -- follow him down XXXXX the shore -- down to the sea -- away from you all .
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