{"product_id":"a-captured-santa-claus-9781835522752","title":"A Captured Santa Claus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey went to sleep the night before Christmas-or rather they went to bed, for sleep was long far from their bright eyes-with delightful expectations and thrills along their backs, and with little squeakings and gurglings, like so many little white mice, and if Santa Claus had not always been so very prompt in disappearing up the chimney before daybreak he must certainly have been caught.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor by the time the chickens were crowing in the morning there would be an answering twitter through the house, and with a patter of little feet and subdued laughter small, white-clad figures would steal through the dim light of dusky rooms and cold passages, opening doors with sudden bursts, and shouting \"Christmas gift!\" into darkened chambers, at still sleeping elders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen they would scurry away in the gray light to rake open the hickory embers and revel in the exploration of their bulging, overcrowded stockings. Not Columbus was to be envied when those discoveries were being made. What was a new world to those treasures!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thrill of the new jack-knife remains after forty years-it had four blades, each worth a province. Envy Columbus? Perish the thought!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Exotic Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835522752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.08d","brand":"Thomas Nelson Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52122256736437,"sku":"9781835522752","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5ae4202d-f8fe-4296-9c5c-f2b28a75d00d.jpg?v=1766512270","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-captured-santa-claus-9781835522752","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}