Narration: The Huckabuck Family

TITLE: The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back
AUTHOR: Carl Sandburg

NARRATION: Jonas Jonas Huckabuck and Mama Mama Huckabuck and Pony Pony Huckabuck lived in Nebraska. They were raising pop corn. Pony Pony Huckabuck had a secret. Her secret was a goldeny squash. She wanted to make pumpkin pie. She opened the squash and it was very pretty and there was a little spot of silver. She poked and poked and plumped and poked with her fingers and she found a little thing, a little slipper thing, a chinese silver slipper buckle. She showed the buckle to Mama Mama, who said, "It will change our luck. We don't know if it will be good luck or bad luck." And then she made squash pie.

That night there was a fire. And it popped popped and popped the pop corn and it burned all the pop corn and the pop corn went up and up and up and it looked like snow. Big white snow. And then the Huckabuck family quit and went away. They went to Iowa and the daddy's job, Jonas Jonas Huckabuck had a job in a watch shop where he watched the watches at the watch shop. They were waiting for a sign so that they could go back to Nebraska.

Pony Pony Huckabuck wanted to makes some squash pie, so she went to the store and she got a squash. Can you guess it? You guessed it. There was a chinese buckle in the squash. She said "A sign! A sign!" and she took it to her mama and they moved back to Nebraska where they lived happily ever after. They did not plant pop corn ever again. The end.

REVIEW: I did not ever get this story one bit. The title is so long I do not get was the title means. And I have no idea why a farmer would raise pop corn because it's not obliged to be raised on a farm. A farm is where you raise all kinds of vegetables and fruit, no pop corn. I thought the story was nuts. I did like the chinese buckle, though. I wish I had a nice chinese buckle, even though I have a nice purple flower in my hair.