Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lens, Vol. 2: December 12, 1904
Taking for granted that you have promised not to tell this to a living soul, I will begin my story. It was a very cold night, the night before Christmas, when I was walking along the coun try road thinking deeply about, - well, I do not know what I was thinking about, - but at any rate I was thinking. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, as of an approaching company of riders on horseback. I wondered what this could be, but as the sound grew rapidly more distinct, I knew that it could not be horses' feet that I heard for the step was so light, that if my ears had not been very acute, I should never have noticed the sound at all. It struck me that this might be Santa Claus, but then I put the thought away as soon as possible, for I considered that this was absurd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.