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| 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 | [3] |
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| Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After | [9] |
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| Two Stories About Bugs and Eggs |
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| Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House | [19] |
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| Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster’s Hat | [27] |
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| Five Stories About Hatrack the Horse, Six Pigeons, Three Wild Babylonian Baboons, Six Umbrellas, Bozo the Button Buster |
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| How Ragbag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins | [33] |
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| How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams | [41] |
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| How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter | [49] |
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| How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella | [55] |
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| How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came | [63] |
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| Two Stories About Four Boys Who Had Different Dreams |
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| How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches | [75] |
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| How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things | [87] |
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| 5. |
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| Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man About Two Girls with Red Hearts |
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| How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass | [97] |
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| How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons | [105] |
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| Three Stories About Moonlight, Pigeons, Bees, Egypt, Jesse James, Spanish Onions, the Queen of the Cracked Heads, the King of the Paper Sacks |
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| How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where the Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion | [115] |
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| How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country | [127] |
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| How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers | [139] |
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| 7. |
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| Two Stories Out of the Tall Grass |
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| The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns | [153] |
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| Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game | [161] |
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| 8. |
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| Two Stories Out of Oklahoma and Nebraska |
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| The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back | [169] |
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| Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose | [181] |
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| 9. |
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| One Story About Big People Now and Little People Long Ago |
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| How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig’s Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains | [191] |
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| 10. |
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| Three Stories About the Letter X and How It Got into the Alphabet |
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| Pig Wisps | [201] |
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| Kiss Me | [207] |
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| Blue Silver | [215] |