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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
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