175

7.

One Story--"Only the Fire-Born Understand Blue"

Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon 185

Sand Flat Shadows 191

8.

Two Stories About Corn Fairies, Blue Foxes, Flongboos
and Happenings That Happened in the United States
and Canada

How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See 'Em 205

How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back
Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat 213

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The balloons floated and filled the sky Frontispiece

He opened the ragbag and took out all the spot cash money 7

Then the uncles asked her the first question first 21

They held on to the long curved tails of the rusty rats 33

"I am sure many people will stop and remember the
Potato Face Blind Man" 47

His hat was popcorn, his mittens popcorn and his
shoes popcorn 83

They stepped into the molasses with their bare feet 113

The monkey took the place of the traffic policeman 129

So they stood looking 153

It seemed to him as though the sky came down close
to his nose 177

Away off where the sun was coming up, there were
people and animals 195

There on a high stool in a high tower, on a high hill
sits the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers 215

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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.

_People_: Gimme the Ax
Please Gimme
Ax Me No Questions
The Ticket Agent
Wing Tip the Spick