Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it

ROOTABAGA PIGEONS

BY

CARL SANDBURG

Author of “Rootabaga Stories,” “Slabs of the Sunburnt West,” “Smoke and Steel,” “Chicago Poems,” “Cornhuskers”

ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS

BY

MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY

THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY

RAHWAY, N. J.

In compliance with current copyright law, LBS Archival Products produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48–1984 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original.

1992

♾™

To Three Illinois Pigeons

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