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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

Mrs.
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