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[ Hence perhaps the adage, "Always remember to pay the piper.">[
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[ And it reappears as the mysterious lyre of the Gaelic musician, who
"Could harp a fish out o' the water,
Or bluid out of a stane,
Or milk out of a maiden's breast,
That bairns had never nane.">[
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[ Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, Vol. II. p. 159.]
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[ Perhaps we may trace back to this source the frantic terror which Irish servant-girls often manifest at sight of a mouse.]