  How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions How Bimbo the Snip's Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See 'Em How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat ROOTABAGA STORIES BY CARL SANDBURG Author of “Slabs of the Sunburnt West,” “Smoke and Steel,” “Chicago Poems,” “Cornhuskers” ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N J TO SPINK AND SKABOOTCH CONTENTS
1. Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad, the Pigs with Bibs On, the Circus Clown Ovens, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Village of Cream Puffs. How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country 3 How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away 19 How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village 29
2. Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion 41 How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning 45 Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger 53 The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man 59 How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag 65
3. Three Stories About the Gold Buckskin Whincher The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher 73 The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes 79 The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money 89
4. Four Stories About the Deep Doom of Dark Doorways The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It 99 How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo 105 Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions 109 How Bimbo the Snip's Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed 123
5. Three Stories About Three Ways the Wind Went Winding The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child 133 The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits 141 The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo 151
6. Four Stories About Dear, Dear Eyes The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy 159 What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback 167 How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On 175 Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon 185
7. One Story--"Only the Fire-Born Understand Blue" Sand Flat Shadows 191
8. Two Stories About Corn Fairies, Blue Foxes, Flongboos and Happenings That Happened in the United States and Canada How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See 'Em 205 How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat 213 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad, the Pigs with Bibs On, the Circus Clown Ovens, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Village of Cream Puffs.
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