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10. Three Stories About the Letter X and How It Got into the Alphabet.

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    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 howand 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.