Especially when they spoke in a small piping voice, and asked for goat's milk.

"You could have brought butter," said a piping voice at his elbow.

I am Ellen,' said the girl, in a piping voice.

"Oh, I just cannot decide," came a boy's piping voice from the center of the women.

"Tell him yourself," the young man said in a piping voice.

"That's right," said a piping voice from further down the corridor.

"So this is Mary's little girl," said a piping voice.

They all turned to the source of the small piping voice.

Now he must be well over a hundred, but that piping voice could come from no one else.

He asked in a piping voice: "Why do you sleep when the day is so new?