Rootabaga Pigeons
by Carl Sandburg
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Title
- Rootabaga pigeons
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Fairy tales -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61553
- Release Date
- March 3, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ROOTABAGA PIGEONS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.1. Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man. — The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice — Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After
- 5.2. Two Stories About Bugs and Eggs. — Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House — Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster’s Hat
- 6.3. Five Stories About Hatrack the Horse, Six Pigeons, Three Wild Babylonian Baboons, Six Umbrellas, Bozo the Button Buster. — How Rag Bag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins — How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams — How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter — How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella — How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came
- 7.4. Two Stories About Four Boys Who Had Different Dreams. — How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches — 1 — 2 — How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things
- 8.5. Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man About Two Girls with Red Hearts. — How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass — How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons
- 9.6. Three Stories About Moonlight, Pigeons, Bees, Egypt, Jesse James, Spanish Onions, the Queen of the Cracked Heads, the King of the Paper Sacks. — How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where the Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion — How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country — How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers
- 10.7. Two Stories Out of the Tall Grass. — The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns — Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game
- 11.8. Two Stories Out of Oklahoma and Nebraska. — The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back — Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose in Oklahoma
- 12.9. One Story About Big People Now and Little People Long Ago. — How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig’s Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains
- 13.10. Three Stories About the Letter X and How It Got into the Alphabet. — Pig Wisps — Kiss Me — Blue Silver
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