Rootabaga Pigeons/Section 10
10.Three Stories About the Letter
X and How It Got into the
Alphabet.
X and How It Got into the
Alphabet.
People:An Oyster King
Shovel Ears
Pig Wisps
The Men Who Change the Alphabets
A River Lumber King
Kiss Me
Flax Eyes
Wildcats
A Rich Man
Blue Silver
Her Playmates, Singing
There are six hundred different stories told in the Rootabaga Country about the first time the letter X got into the alphabet and how and why it was. The author has chosen three (3) of the shortest and strangest of those stories and they are told in the next and following pages.