Rootabaga Pigeons. Carl Sandburg Sandburg

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       Carl Sandburg

      Rootabaga Pigeons

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066065751

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       Rootabaga Pigeons

       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

       Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House

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

       How Ragbag 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

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

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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig's Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains

       Pig Wisps

       Kiss Me

       Blue Silver

      Rootabaga Pigeons

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Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it

Frontispiece (in color)

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On the last step of the stairway my foot slips… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .11

The Hot Cookie Pan came with a pan of hot cookies and the Coal Bucket with coal… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .21

The mouse bit the knot and cut it loose… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .67

They went to sleep on top of the wagon… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .81

She was sitting on a ladder feeding baby clocks to the baby alligators… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .119

One of the pigeons rang the bell… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .129

She carried the squash into the kitchen… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .171

Out into the snowstorm Flax Eyes rode that day… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .209

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      1.Two Stories Told by the Potato

      Face Blind Man

      People:Blixie Bimber Blixie Bimber's Mother The Potato Face Blind Man A Green Rat with the Rheumatism Bricklayers Mortar Men Riveters A Skyscraper Slipfoot A Stairway to the Moon A Trapeze

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      Blixie Bimber's mother was chopping hash. And the hatchet broke. So Blixie started downtown with fifteen cents to buy a new hash