The balloons floated and filled the sky ROOTABAGA STORIES BY CARL SANDBURG Author of “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, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N J TO SPINK AND SKABOOTCH