where the peacocks always cry before it rains—and where the frogs always gamble with golden dice after midnight. And what they look longest at is a summer moon hanging in the tree-tops, when there is 111a lisp of leaves, and the shine of the moon and the lisp of the leaves seem to be telling each other something. 111 So the Potato Face came to a finish with his story. Blixie Bimber kissed him good-night on the nose, saying, “You loosened up beautiful to-night.” 113 6. Three Stories About Moonlight, Pigeons, Bees, Egypt, Jesse James, Spanish Onions, the Queen of the Cracked Heads, the King of the Paper Sacks. 115 How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where the Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion The sky shook a rain down one Saturday night over the people, the postoffice, and the peanut-stand in the Village of Liver-and-Onions. And after the rain, the sky shook loose a moon so a moonshine came with gold on the rainpools. 116And a west wind came out of the west sky and shook the moonshine gold on the tops of the rainpools. 116 Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz came, two tough pony girls, two limber prairie girls, in the moonshine humming little humpty dumpty songs. They came to the postoffice corner where the Potato Face Blind Man sat hugging his accordion, wondering what was next and who and why. He was saying to himself, “Who was it told me the rats on the moon in the middle of the winter lock their mittens in ice boxes?” And just then Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz came flipping along saying, “It is a misty moisty evening in the moonshine, isn’t it?” And he answered, “The moon is a round gold door with silver transoms to-night. Bumble bees and honey bees are chasing each other over the gold door of the moon and up over the silver transoms.” 117Dippy the Wisp took out a bee-bag, took bees out of the bee-bag, balanced the bees on her thumb, humming a humpty dumpty song. And Slip Me Liz, looking on, joined in on the humpty dumpty song. And, of course, the bees began
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