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

CARL SANDBURG

MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

To Three Illinois Pigeons

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FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man.

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The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice

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

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