How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things _87_ 5. Two Stories Told by the Potato Face Blind Man About Two Girls with Red Hearts How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass _97_ How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons _105_ 6. Three Stories About Moonlight, Pigeons, Bees, Egypt, Jesse James, Spanish Onions, the Queen of the Cracked Heads, the King of the Paper Sacks How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where the Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion _115_ How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country _127_ How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers _139_ 7. Two Stories Out of the Tall Grass The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns _153_ Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game _161_ 8. Two Stories Out of Oklahoma and Nebraska The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back _169_ Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose _181_ 9. One Story About Big People Now and Little People Long Ago How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig’s Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains _191_ 10. Three Stories About the Letter X and How It Got into the Alphabet Pig Wisps _201_ Kiss Me _207_ Blue Silver _215_ FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it _Frontispiece_ (_in color_) PAGE On the last step of the stairway my foot slips 11 The Hot Cookie Pan came with a pan of hot cookies and the Coal Bucket with coal 21 The mouse bit the knot and cut it loose 67