Table of Contents
1 Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad, the Pigs with Bibs On, the Circus Clown Ovens, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Village of Cream Puffs
How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country 3
How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away 19
How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village 29
2 Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man
The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion 41
How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning 45
Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger 53
The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blood Man 59
How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag 65
3 Three Stories About the Gold Buckskin Whincher
The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher 73
The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes 79
The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came With Spot Cash Money 89
4 Four Stories About the Deep Doom of Dark Doorways
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It 99
How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo 105
Three Boys with Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions 109
How Bimboo the Snip's Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed 123
5 Three Stories About Three Ways the Wind Went Winding
The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child 133
The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits 141
The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo 151
6 Four Stories About Dear, Dear Eyes
The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy 159
What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback 167
How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar With His Mittens On 175
Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon 185
7 One story-"only the Fire-Born Understand Blue"
Sand Flat Shadows 191
8 Two Stories About Corn Fairies, Blue Foxes, Flongboos and Happenings That Happened in the United States and Canada
How to Tell Corn Fairies if You See 'Em 205
How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat 213
