Index:Rootabaga Pigeons by Carl Sandburg.pdf
CONTENTS 1. 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. Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House19 Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster's Hat27 3. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig's Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains191 10. FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
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