6. Four Stories About Dear, Dear Eyes
| People: | The White Horse Girl |
| The Blue Wind Boy | |
| The Gray Man on Horseback | |
| Six Girls With Balloons | |
| Henry Hagglyhoagly | |
| Susan Slackentwist | |
| Two Wool Yarn Mittens | |
| Peter Potato Blossom Wishes | |
| Her Father | |
| Many Shoes | |
| Slippers | |
| A Slipper Moon |
The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind
Boy
When the dishes are washed at night time and the cool of the evening has come in summer or the lamps and fires are lit for the night in winter, then the fathers and mothers in the Rootabaga Country sometimes tell the young people the story of the White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy.
The White Horse Girl grew up far in the west of the Rootabaga Country. All the years she grew up as a girl she liked to ride horses. Best of all things for her was to be straddle of a white horse loping with a loose bridle among the hills and along the rivers of the west Rootabaga Country.
She rode one horse white as snow, another horse white as new washed sheep wool, and another white as silver. And she could not tell because she did not know which of these three white horses she liked best.