Excerpt from The Costly Star A gate in the enclosure opposite opened and Santa Claus entered. There were shouts of laughter as the children rushed to him. Some more timid than the rest hid their little hands behind them and could not be persuaded to shake the big hand of their half-feared friend. She knew her boy would not be there in a public play-room, but she liked to find the boys who resembled him there were often some who did, but the comparisons were to his advantage. 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.