Title Rootabaga Pigeons
Author Carl Sandburg
Illustrator Maud and Miska Petersham
Year 1923
Publisher Harcourt, Brace and Company
Location New York
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CONTENTS

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 Twice⁠3

Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After⁠9

2.

Two Stories About Bugs and Eggs

Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House⁠19

Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster's Hat⁠27

3.

Five Stories About Hatrack the Horse, Six Pigeons, Three Wild Babylonian Baboons, Six Umbrellas, Bozo the Button Buster

How Ragbag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins⁠33

How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams⁠41

How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter⁠49

How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella⁠55

How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came⁠63

4.

Two Stories About Four Boys Who Had Different Dreams

How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches⁠75

How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things⁠87

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 Glass⁠97

How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons⁠105

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 Accordion⁠115

How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country⁠127

How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers⁠139

7.

Two Stories Out of the Tall Grass

The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns⁠153

Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game⁠161

8.

Two Stories Out of Oklahoma and Nebraska

The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back⁠169

Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose⁠181

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 Mountains⁠191

10.

Three Stories About the Letter X and How It Got into the Alphabet

Pig Wisps⁠201

Kiss Me⁠207

Blue Silver⁠215

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Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it
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On the last step of the stairway my foot slips
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The Hot Cookie Pan came with a pan of hot cookies and the Coal Bucket with coal
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The mouse bit the knot and cut it loose
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They went to sleep on top of the wagon
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She was sitting on a ladder feeding baby clocks to the baby alligators
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One of the pigeons rang the bell
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She carried the squash into the kitchen
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Out into the snowstorm Flax Eyes rode that day
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