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    The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
    The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
    The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
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    The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking

    By May Wilson Preston and Ellis Parker Butler

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Thin Santa Claus The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking - May Wilson Preston

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Thin Santa Claus, by Ellis Parker Butler

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE THIN SANTA CLAUS ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Emma Morgan Isbell, Sankar

      Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      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

      THE THIN SANTA CLAUS

      Mrs. Gratz opened her eyes and looked out at the drizzle that made the Christmas morning gray. Her bed stood against the window, and it was easy for her to look out; all she had to do was to roll over and pull the shade aside. Having looked at the weather she rolled again on to the broad flat of her back and made herself comfortable for awhile, for there was no reason why she should get up until she felt like it.

      Such a Christmas! she said good-naturedly to herself. I guess such weathers is bad for Santy Claus. Mebby it is because of such weathers he don't come by my house. I don't blame him. So muddy!

      She let

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