Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it
ROOTABAGA PIGEONS
BY
CARL SANDBURG
Author of “Rootabaga Stories,” “Slabs of the Sunburnt West,” “Smoke and Steel,” “Chicago Poems,” “Cornhuskers”
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS
BY
MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.
In compliance with current copyright law, LBS Archival Products produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48–1984 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original.
1992
♾™
To Three Illinois Pigeons
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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 Twice | 3 |
| Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After | 9 |
| 2. | |
| Two Stories About Bugs and Eggs | |
| Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House | 19 |
| Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster’s Hat | 27 |
| 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 Pins | 33 |
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