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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 Ellis Parker Butler

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    According to Wikipedia: "Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author... He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically. Working from his home in Flushing (Queens) New York, Butler was—by every measure and by many times—the most published author of the pulp fiction era. Amongst others he wrote twenty-five stories to Woman's Home Companion between 1906 and 1935... His career spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. "
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455314669
    The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard that Was a Christmas Stocking
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    Ellis Parker Butler

    Ellis Parker Butler (1869–1937) was an American author of more than thirty books and two thousand stories and essays. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Authors League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene. He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts.

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      The Thin Santa Claus - Ellis Parker Butler

      THE THIN SANTA CLAUS, THE CHICKEN YARD THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS STOCKING BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Other Santa Claus books and stories:

      Mr. Kris Kringle by Mitchell

      A Kidnapped Santa Claus by Baum

      Life and Adventures of Santa Caus by Baum

      Santa Claus's Partner by Page

      Twas the Night Before Christmas by Moore

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY CMIX

      Copyright, 1909, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY Published, November, 1909.

      Copyright, 1908, by The Curtis Publishing Company

      TO HARRY S. MOORE

       Mrs. Gratz watched the thin man search the chicken yard for toober-chlosis bugs    

      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!

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