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The Thin Santa Claus
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Title: The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
Author: Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator: May Wilson Preston
Release Date: March 6, 2006 [EBook #17937]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: "_Mrs. Gratz watched the thin man search the chicken yard for toober-chlosis bugs_"]
THE THIN SANTA CLAUS
The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
By
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
Illustrated by May Wilson Preston
NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY Published, November, 1909.
Copyright, 1908, by The Curtis Publishing Company
TO
HARRY S. MOORE
ILLUSTRATIONS
"_Mrs. Gratz watched the thin man search the chicken yard for toober-chlosis bugs_" Frontispiece
"_He looked like a man who had lost nine hundred dollars, but he did not look like Santa Claus_"
THE THIN SANTA CLAUS