{"product_id":"2940013168664","title":"THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE","description":"She sat at the base of the big tree--her little sunbonnet pushed back,\u003cbr\u003eher arms locked about her knees, her bare feet gathered under her\u003cbr\u003ecrimson gown and her deep eyes fixed on the smoke in the valley below.\u003cbr\u003eHer breath was still coming fast between her parted lips. There were\u003cbr\u003etiny drops along the roots of her shining hair, for the climb had been\u003cbr\u003esteep, and now the shadow of disappointment darkened her eyes. The\u003cbr\u003emountains ran in limitless blue waves towards the mounting sun--but at\u003cbr\u003ebirth her eyes had opened on them as on the white mists trailing up the\u003cbr\u003esteeps below her. Beyond them was a gap in the next mountain chain and\u003cbr\u003edown in the little valley, just visible through it, were trailing blue\u003cbr\u003emists as well, and she knew that they were smoke. Where was the great\u003cbr\u003eglare of yellow light that the \"circuit rider\" had told about--and\u003cbr\u003ethe leaping tongues of fire? Where was the shrieking monster that ran\u003cbr\u003ewithout horses like the wind and tossed back rolling black plumes all\u003cbr\u003estreaked with fire? For many days now she had heard stories of the\u003cbr\u003e\"furriners\" who had come into those hills and were doing strange things\u003cbr\u003edown there, and so at last she had climbed up through the dewy morning\u003cbr\u003efrom the cove on the other side to see the wonders for herself. She had\u003cbr\u003enever been up there before. She had no business there now, and, if she\u003cbr\u003ewere found out when she got back, she would get a scolding and maybe\u003cbr\u003esomething worse from her step-mother--and all that trouble and risk\u003cbr\u003efor nothing but smoke. So, she lay back and rested--her little mouth\u003cbr\u003etightening fiercely. It was a big world, though, that was spread before\u003cbr\u003eher and a vague awe of it seized her straightway and held her motionless\u003cbr\u003eand dreaming. Beyond those white mists trailing up the hills, beyond the\u003cbr\u003eblue smoke drifting in the valley, those limitless blue waves must run\u003cbr\u003eunder the sun on and on to the end of the world! Her dead sister had\u003cbr\u003egone into that far silence and had brought back wonderful stories of\u003cbr\u003ethat outer world: and she began to wonder more than ever before whether\u003cbr\u003eshe would ever go into it and see for herself what was there. With the\u003cbr\u003ethought, she rose slowly to her feet, moved slowly to the cliff that\u003cbr\u003edropped sheer ten feet aside from the trail, and stood there like a\u003cbr\u003egreat scarlet flower in still air. There was the way at her feet--that\u003cbr\u003epath that coiled under the cliff and ran down loop by loop through\u003cbr\u003emajestic oak and poplar and masses of rhododendron. She drew a long\u003cbr\u003ebreath and stirred uneasily--she'd better go home now--but the path had\u003cbr\u003ea snake-like charm for her and still she stood, following it as far down\u003cbr\u003eas she could with her eyes. Down it went, writhing this way and that\u003cbr\u003eto a spur that had been swept bare by forest fires. Along this spur it\u003cbr\u003etravelled straight for a while and, as her eyes eagerly followed it\u003cbr\u003eto where it sank sharply into a covert of maples, the little creature\u003cbr\u003edropped of a sudden to the ground and, like something wild, lay flat.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147463114992,"sku":"2940013168664","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013168664_p0.jpg?v=1763577486","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013168664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}