Three Stories from the Poppy Seed Cakes

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Poppy Seed Cakes

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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

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Stories

The Poppy Seed Cakes

7

The White Goat

27

The Picnic Basket

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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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