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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

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