Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches

Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches

The kind partiality of indulgent friends having induced me to gather together these scattered fragments, indited as a recreation for my leisure moments, I give them thus collected, with the hope that the same favor will be extended to their imperfections as has so often been shown to their author. [11] t was Christmas Eve, and the one narrow main street of a small country town was ablaze. Extra lights were glowing in all the little shops; yet all this illumination served only to make more apparent the untidy condition of the six-by-nine window panes, as well as the goods therein. Men and women were hastening homeward with well-filled baskets which they had provided for the festive morrow. All the ragged, dirty urchins of the village were gathered about the dingy shop windows admiring, with distended eyes and gaping mouths, the several displays of toys and sweetmeats. Their arms buried quite to their elbows in capacious but empty pockets, they cast longing looks and wondered, as they had no stockings, [12] where Santa Claus could put their presents when he had brought them. To all this show and preparation there was one exception: one place shrouded in total darknessit was the shop of Nick Baba, the village shoemaker. That was for the time deserted; left to its dust, its collection of worn-out soles, its curtains of cobwebs, and its compound of bad, unwholesome odors. This darkness and neglect was about to end, however, and give place to a glimmer of light. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18509
Author: Goff, George Paul
Release Date: Jun 5, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English