5. Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man About Two Girls with Red Hearts.
People: Blixie Bimber The Potato Face Blind Man Shoulder Straps High High Over Six Bits Deep Red Roses A Clock A Looking Glass Baggage Pink Peony Spuds the Ballplayer Four Moon Peacocks Frogs Oranges Yellow Silk Handkerchiefs
How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass
One morning when big white clouds were shouldering each other’s shoulders, rolling on the rollers of a big blue sky, Blixie Bimber came along where the Potato Face Blind Man sat shining the brass bickerjiggers on his accordion.
“Do you like to shine up the brass bickerjiggers?” asked Blixie.
“Yes,” he answered. “One time a long time ago the brass bickerjiggers were gold, but they stole the gold away when I wasn’t looking.”
He blinked the eyelids over his eyeballs and said, “I thank them because they took gold they wanted. Brass feels good to my fingers the same as gold.” And he went on shining up the brass bickerjiggers on the accordion, humming a little line of an old song, “To-morrow will never catch up with yesterday because yesterday started sooner.”
“Seems like a nice morning with the sun spilling bushels of sunshine,” he said to Blixie, who answered, “Big white clouds are shouldering each other’s shoulders rolling on the rollers of a big blue sky.”