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Three Stories From
Ide
Poppy Seed Cakes
y Margery Clark Pictures by
Maud 6 Miska
Peter
Digitized by the Internet Archive in
2009
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AUNTIE KATUSHKA BROUGHT A HUGE BAG FILLED WITH PRESENTS
Three Stories From
Cakes by Margery Clark Pictures by
Maud 6 Miska
Petersham
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Copyright 1924 by Doubleday
Book
Services,
Company,
& Company,
Inc. This
a division of Scholastic Magazines,
abridged edition is published by Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Doubleday &
Inc.
January 1972
1st printing
Printed
in
the U.S.A.
Stories
The Poppy Seed Cakes
7
The White Goat
27
The Picnic Basket
45
THE POPPY SEED CAKES NCE
upon
little
a time there was a
boy and
his
Andrewshek. His mother and
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name was his father
brought him from the old country when he was a tiny baby.
Andrewshek had an Auntie Katushka and she came from the old country, too,
on Andrewshek's fourth birthday. Andrewshek's
came on a
large
Auntie boat.
with her a huge bag for
filled
Andrewshek and
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Katushka
She brought with presents
his father
and
his
In the huge bag were a fine
mother. feather
bed and a bright shawl and
pounds of poppy
The
five
seeds.
fine feather
bed was made from
the feathers of her old green goose at
home.
It
was
to
warm when he took
The
keep
Andrewshek
a nap.
bright shawl was for
shek's Auntie
Andrew-
Katushka to wear when
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AUNTIE KATUSHKA STARTING HOME FROM THE MARKET
she went to market.
The five pounds to sprinkle shek's
of
poppy
seeds
were
on little cakes which Andrew-
Auntie
made
Katushka
every
Saturday for Andrewshek.
One
lovely Saturday
morning An-
drewshek's Auntie Katushka took some butter
and some sugar and some
flour
and some milk and seven eggs and she
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rolled out
some nice
little
cakes.
she sprinkled each cake with
poppy
seeds
some
Then of the
which she had brought from
the old country.
While the nice
little
cakes were bak-
ing, she spread out the fine feather
on top
of the big bed, for
bed
Andrewshek
Andrewshek did not
to take his nap. like to take a nap.
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SHE SPRINKLED EACH CAKE WITH POPPY SEEDS
Andrewshek loved
to
bounce up and
down and up and down on
his
fine
feather bed.
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka took the nice
little
cakes out of the oven and
put them on the table to cool; then she
put on her bright shawl to go to market.
"Andrewshek," she these cakes while
said, "please
you
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rest
watch
on your
fine
feather bed.
the
Be sure
and
dog do not go near them." "Yes, indeed!
little
will
that the kitten
I will
watch the nice
cakes," said Andrewshek.
"And
I
be sure that the kitten and the dog
do not touch them."
But
all
Andrew-
shek really did was to bounce up and
down and up and down on feather bed.
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the fine
"Andrewshek!" Auntie Katushka,
said
Andrewshek's
"how can you watch
the
poppy seed cakes when
to
bounce up and down and up and
down on
all
you do
the fine feather bed?"
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka,
is
Then in her
bright shawl, hurried off to market.
But Andrewshek kept bouncing up
and down and up and down on the
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fine
BOUNCING UP IN THE AIR FOR THE NINTH TIME
feather little
bed and paid no attention to the
cakes sprinkled with
Just as
up
poppy
Andrewshek was bouncing
in the air for the ninth time,
a queer noise that s-sss," at the front
sounded door of
he heard
like "Hs-s-shis house.
"Oh, what a queer noise 1" Andrewshek. fine feather
seeds.
He jumped down
cried off the
bed and opened the front
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door. as
a great green goose
There stood
big as
Andrewshek
himself.
The
goose was very cross and was scolding as fast as
he could.
He
was wagging
his
head and was opening and closing
his
long red beak.
"What do you want?" shek.
"What
"I want
all
are
said
Andrew-
you scolding about?"
the goose feathers from
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your fine feather bed," quacked the big
"They
green goose.
"They shek.
are mine."
are not yours," said
"My
Andrew-
Auntie Katushka brought
them with her from the old country a
in
huge bag."
"They
are mine,"
green goose. fine feather
He
quacked the big
waddled over to the
bed and tugged
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at
it
with
THE GREEN GOOSE TUGGED AT THE FINE FEATHER BED
his
long red beak. "Stop, Green Goose!" said Andrew-
shek, "and I will give
you one
of
Auntie
Katushka's poppy seed cakes."
"A poppy
seed
cake!" the green
goose quacked in delight. little
poppy seed
and you
shall
cakes!
"I love nice
Give
me
one
have your feather bed."
But one poppy seed cake could not
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satisfy the
"Give
greedy green goose.
me
another!"
Andrewshek
gave the green goose another poppy seed cake.
"Give
me
another!" the big green
goose hissed and frightened Andrewshek nearly out of his wits.
Andrewshek gave him another and and another and another
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till all
the poppy
seed cakes were gone. Just as the last
appeared
down
poppy seed cake
dis-
the long neck of the
green goose, Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka appeared at the door, in bright shawl.
drewshek.
her
"Boo! hoo!" cried An-
"See!
that
naughty green
goose has eaten all the poppy seed cakes."
"What?
All
my
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nice
little
poppy
"
seed cakes?" cried Andrewshek's Auntie
Katushka.
The feather
"The naughty goose
greedy goose tugged
bed again with
beak and started to drag
his it
I
at the fine
long red
to the door.
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka ran
after
the green goose and just then there was
a dreadful explosion.
The greedy goose
who had stuffed himself with poppy seed
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cakes had burst and his feathers flew
all
over the room.
"Well!
said
Andrewshek's
as she
gathered up the
well!"
Auntie Katushka,
pieces of the big green goose.
soon
shall
"We
have two fine feather pillows
for your fine feather bed."
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THE WHITE GOAT NE
fine Saturday
morning An-
drewshek's Auntie Katushka said,
"Andrewshek,
I
must go to market
and buy a goat."
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Andrewshek was playing den.
He
feathers
in the gar-
had pulled out some of the
from
his fine feather
had put them
bed and
He
in his hair.
looked
very funny.
As Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka went out
of the gate to
Andrewshek
said,
"May
Auntie Katushka?"
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go I
to market,
go with you,
"No, Andrewshek!"
said his
Auntie
"You must
stay at
home.
Katushka.
Please watch to see that the
open the gate and
let
dog does not
the chickens and
the cat run out into the road."
"Yes, indeed, the will
cat
I will
watch to
dog does not open the
gate.
see that
And
I
be sure that the chickens and the
do not run out
into the road."
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Then Auntie Katushka, in her bright shawl, hurried off to market.
Andrewshek
really
did
But
all
was to swing
backward and forward and backward and forward on the dark green gate.
Andrewshek loved
to swing back-
ward and forward on the gate just as much as
he loved to bounce up and
his fine feather bed.
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down on
the market Auntie Katushka saw
At a
The white
white goat.
long beard and a short just the
goat
I
tail.
goat had a
"That
is
want!" said Auntie Ka-
tushka.
"White Goat!" ka.
me
"I to
said
Auntie Katush-
am going to take you home with
Andrewshek."
"Who is Andrewshek?" said the goat.
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"Andrewshek across the tracks little
is
a
little
boy who
and up the
hill,
lives
in a
house with a dark green gate.
Andrewshek
loves to swing
backward
and forward and backward and forward
on the dark green gate." "I would not be surprised
if
Andrew-
shek was swinging backward and for-
ward on the green gate now,"
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said the
ALL ANDREWSHEK DID WAS TO SWING BACKWARD AND FORWARD
AND BACKWARD AND FORWARD
goat to herself.
and
"I think
run ahead
I'll
see."
She galloped
off.
"Stop, White Goat!" cried Auntie
Katushka.
"Stop!"
But the goat did not faster
and
faster, across
the hill until she
came
stop.
the tracks and to the
with the dark green gate.
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She ran
little
up
house
Andrew-
shek was swinging backward and forward
and backward and forward on the dark green gate.
The
chickens and the cat
had long before run out into the road.
"How said the
white goat.
"How said
do you do, Andrewshek?"
do you do, White Goat?"
Andrewshek.
"Where
ing?"
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are
you go-
HOW DO YOU
DO,
ANDREWSHEK?"
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"I think goat.
I will
hide!" said the white
She ran behind the
little
house.
Andrewshek's Auntie Katushka, in her bright shawl, came hurrying up the hill.
"Andrewshek,
I
bought a sweet white
goat at the market, to give us milk for
our poppy seed cakes.
She ran away
and so we cannot have any poppy seed
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cakes to-day.
I
wonder how we can
find her!"
"Ha!
ha! ha!" the sweet white goat
called out. of the roof
She had climbed to the top
where she could look down
on Andrewshek and Auntie Katushka.
"Come down from naughty White Goat!" tushka.
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the roof, you
said
Auntie Ka-
The
goat shook her head.
"Please shek.
come down!"
"And
I will
give
said
Andrew-
you a big poppy
seed cake."
"I do not like poppy seed cakes," said the
naughty white goat.
"What
shall
we do?"
said
Andrew-
shek.
Andrewshek's
Auntie
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Katushka
'I
DO NOT LIKE POPPY SEED
CAKES," SAID
THE NAUGHTY WHITE GOAT
went into the house and took bright shawl.
off her
She put on her apron.
She washed some turnips and some parsnips,
two onions and four
Then
the soup.
she cut the green tops
from the vegetables. tops
in
a
carrots for
basket.
She put the green "Goats love fresh
green tops," she said to Andrewshek, she put the basket
as
on the back porch by
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the door.
She
left
The naughty
the door wide open.
white goat was peep-
ing over the roof to see what she could
She saw the green tops in the
see.
basket by the kitchen door. ately she felt very hungry.
bered
down from
ImmediShe clam-
the roof. She stole up
to the basket.
"Well! well!" laughed Andrewshek's
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THE PICNIC BASKET NE
cool
summer morning An-
drewshek's
Auntie
said,
"Andrewshek,
I
some
sandwiches
and
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think
Katushka I
some
will
put
cottage
cheese and some poppy seed cakes and
two eggs
we
will
go
in our picnic basket.
to the park
and
eat
Then
our lunch
there, near the water."
"May I go with
you, Auntie Katush-
ka?" said Andrewshek.
"Of course you may go
to the park
with me," said Auntie Katushka. first
we
have a great
many
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"But
things to do,
before
we can
start to
the park.
I
must
go into the garden and catch the white goat.
I will tie
run away.
her up so she will not
Please find the kitten,
drewshek, and put her in the
An-
cellar, so
she will not worry the chickens while
we
are gone."
"Yes, indeed,
and put her
I
will find the kitten
in the cellar," said
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Andrew-
shek, "so she will not worry the chickens
while
we
But to
lift
are gone."
Andrewshek
all
really did
was
up the red and white napkin which
Auntie Katushka had nic basket
and look
laid over the pic-
at the
eggs and the
poppy seed cakes and touch the sandwiches and
taste the cottage cheese.
The goat was not easy to catch. The
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THE GOAT WAS NOT EASY TO CATCH
goat wanted to
go
to the park, too.
She
galloped round and round the garden.
At and
last
Auntie Katushka caught her
tied her firmly to a post.
Then Auntie Katushka went the house to get
lunch
basket.
into
Andrewshek and the
She saw Andrewshek
peeping under the red and white napkin
and
tasting the cottage cheese.
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He
had
forgotten
all
about the kitten.
The kitten was nowhere
to be found.
"I think she must be paying a
Mouse
visit
to the
family," said Auntie Katushka.
Then Auntie Katushka bright shawl
put on her
and took her umbrella with
the long crooked handle under one arm.
Then
she picked
up the lunch basket
with the red and white napkin on top and
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she
and Andrewshek
started
for
the
park.
They went down
and
across
the tracks and past the market and
down
the
a long street until they
hill
came
to the park
by the water.
Andrewshek beside
a
little
sat
down on
stream.
Auntie Katushka
laid her
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the grass
Andrewshek's umbrella with
the long crooked handle and the basket of
lunch on the grass beside Andrew-
shek.
"Andrewshek," ka, "I
said
Auntie Katush-
must go to the spring and get
some water
for us
to
drink.
Please
watch the basket with the eggs and the sandwiches and poppy seed cakes and cottage cheese while
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I
am
gone."
"Yes, indeed, of lunch," said
I will
watch the basket
Andrewshek.
But what Andrewshek really did was to say to himself, "I off
would
like to take
my shoes and my stockings and wade
in the
little
stream.
Andrewshek took his stockings little
I believe I will!"
off his shoes
and went wading
stream.
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and
in the
ANDREWSHEK SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS
A calmly
big white
down
swan came
floating
He
saw the
the stream.
picnic basket lying
on the
grass.
He
stopped and stretched and stretched his
long neck,
till
he could touch the basket.
"Honk! honk! honk!" said der what
is
he.
"I
won-
under the red and white
napkin."
The
big white swan lifted the napkin
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with his red
bill
"Oh, oh, oh!
and looked in the
basket.
Won't Mother Swan be
pleased with this nice lunch!" said he.
"Sandwich bread makes
fine
food for
baby swans."
He picked up the basket in his strong red
ahead of him
down
Andrewshek could not wade
after
bill
and
floated
it
the stream.
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The
the big white swan.
water was too
deep.
"Stop!
"That
Andrewshek. tushka's picnic
lunch in
it.
White Swan!"
stop!
is
my
basket and
Please put
it
cried
Auntie Kait
has our
back on the
grass."
"No, indeed! basket
I
will
not put the
back," honked the big white
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ANDREWSHKK COULD NOT WADE AFTER THE
BIG
WHITE SWAN
"Sandwich bread makes fine food
swan. for
baby swans and
I
have ten baby swans
to feed."
The basket a
The
big white swan gave the picnic little
push with
basket floated on
stream.
The
Just then
down
big white
calmly behind
his
red the
swan
bill.
little
floated
it.
Andrewshek's Auntie Ka-
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tushka came hurrying up with the spring water.
ing
She saw the big white swan
down
float-
the stream, with the lunch
basket floating ahead of him.
Andrewshek stood
in the middle of
the stream, crying.
Auntie Katushka picked up her umbrella
with the long crooked handle.
Auntie Katushka ran along the shore
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until she overtook the big white swan,
with the lunch basket floating ahead of him.
She caught the handle of the picnic basket in the crook of her long handled
umbrella.
She drew the basket
safely
to shore.
"Well! well!" said Auntie Katushka, as she spread the red
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and white nap-
kin on the grass, and laid the sandwiches
and the poppy seed cakes and the cottage cheese
and the eggs upon
it.
"It
always pays to carry an umbrella to a picnic."
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This book has three funny stories for you!
The Poppy Seed Cakes The White Goat The
Picnic Basket
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