Contents

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Lady Hollyhock and Her Daughter[21]
The Cucumbers[24]
Radishes and Corn[27]
The Radish Baby’s Song[28]
Radish Babies[31]
The Corn Lullaby[32]
Pansies[35]
Pansy Ladies[36]
Poppy Maids[39]
Poppy Lullaby[40]
Acorn and Burdock Eskimos[43]
Pigs[46]
Burdock Leaves and Clothes-Pins[49]
The Clothes-Pin Tribe[50]
An Irish (Potato) Woman and Her Family[54]
Creatures of Clay[58]
A Man of Clay[60]
The Corn Husk Lady[61]
The Corn Cob Baby[64]
Apple Jack[66]
Apple Jack’s Story[66]
The Peanut Man[70]
The Peanut Chinese Woman[72]
The Acorn Family[74]
The Haws[81]
The Gourds[82]
Gourd Man[84]
What the Gourd Man Said[86]
The Mender[89]
Hickory-Nut People[90]
The Hickory-Nut Nurse[92]
The Kelp Maiden[94]
The Kelp Maid’s Song[98]
Morning-Glory Ladies[101]
Jack O’Lanterns[102]
Pumpkin Pies[104]
Jack O’Lantern Dreams[105]
Rastus Prune[106]
Dinah Prune[108]
Pipe Dolls[111]
Paper Dolls[119]
Handkerchief Dolls[122]
Pill-Box Dolls[124]
The Straw Indian[126]
The Dried Peach Indian[128]
The Softening of the Snows[130]
Pastry Creatures[134]
The Doughnut Man[136]
The Gingerbread Maid[138]
The Yarn Child[142]
Rag Dolls[144]
Rag Babies[146]
Tissue-Paper Ladies[148]
Humpty-Dumpty[151]
Cinderella’s Coach[153]