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Title: Rootabaga Stories

Author: Carl Sandburg

Illustrator: Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #27085]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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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

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N J

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TO
SPINK AND SKABOOTCH

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CONTENTS

1.

Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad,
the Pigs with Bibs On, the Circus Clown Ovens,
the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the
Village of Cream Puffs.

How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country 3

How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the
Wind Blows It Away