Excerpt from Spectacles for Young Eyes: New York St. Nicholas came riding over the tops of the trees in that self-same wagon, it says, wherein he brings his yearly presents to children; and he descended. He lighted his pipe by the fire, and sat himself down and smoked; and as he smoked, the smoke from his pipe ascended into the air, and spread like a cloud overhead. And Olofi'e be thought him, and he hastened and climbed up to the top of one of the tallest trees, and saw that the smoke spread over a great extent of country; and as he considered more attentively, he fancied that the great volume of smoke assumed a variety of marvellous forms, where, m dim obscurity, he saw shadowed out palaces, and domes, and lofty spires. 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.