The Pied Piper

This probably seems silly but I keep thinking about the story of the Pied Piper who was contracted to rid a German town of its rats using his magically alluring flutophone (my own childhood being reflected here since I still remember our whole class being taught the flutophone at about the same time as we were informed of the Pied Piper) but when the town went back on its word to reward him fairly for his services he used that same pipe to lure the children away never to be seen again.

So the thing that bothers me is what became of the kids? The piper lured them away from their source of food and shelter, not to mention love, yet nobody knows if he had the means to support the kids himself. Did he sell them into slavery? I mean, for all we know he might have offered them to the brother of Jack and the Bean Stock's giant to be eaten! We don't know!

The moral of the story is never trust strangers or people with financial interests with your kids. They might, behind your backs, convince your kids to change gender.