She looked in the back seat; she felt with her hands and fingers all over the back seat.
In the back seat she could find only four oranges. They opened the oranges and in each orange they found a yellow silk handkerchief.
To-day, if you go to the house where Pink Peony and Spuds are living, you will find four children playing there, each with a yellow silk handkerchief tied around the neck in a mystic slip knot.
Each child has a moon face and a moon name. And sometimes their father and mother pile them all into a car and they ride out to the valley where the peacocks always cry before it rains—and where the frogs always gamble with golden dice after midnight.
And what they look longest at is a summer moon hanging in the tree-tops, when there is a lisp of leaves, and the shine of the moon and the lisp of the leaves seem to be telling each other something.
So the Potato Face came to a finish with his story. Blixie Bimber kissed him good-night on the nose, saying, “You loosened up beautiful to-night.”
6. Three Stories About Moonlight, Pigeons, Bees, Egypt, Jesse James, Spanish Onions, the Queen of the Cracked Heads, the King of the Paper Sacks.
People: Dippy the Wisp Slip Me Liz The Potato Face Blind Man Egypt Jesse James Spanish Onions The Queen of the Cracked Heads The King of the Paper Sacks The Queen of the Empty Hats Hot Balloons A Snoox A Gringo Sweetheart Dippies Nail-eating Rats Sooners Boomers More People: Cracked Heads Clock-eating Goats Baby Alligators Pink and Purple Peanuts Empty Hats Bats, Cats, Rats Rag Pickers, Rag Handlers Squirrels, Fish, Baboons, Black Cats A Steel Car, an Air Car Gophers
