title: Mini-Cheers: Carving Miniature Santas (Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers)
author:  Ron Ransom 
description: Ron Ransom is a leading self-taught wood carver, teacher, and author who has been carving wood for many years.
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  The Thin Santa Claus
  
  
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  # The Thin Santa Claus
  
  
  ### Ellis Parker Butler
  
  
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      The Thin Santa Claus
  
  
  The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Jason Isbell, Emma Morgan Isbell, Sankar
  
  
  Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
  
  
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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