{"product_id":"2940013289055","title":"Brave Tom","description":"Chapter I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a certain summer day, a few years ago, the little village of\u003cbr\u003eBriggsville, in Pennsylvania, was thrown into a state of excitement, the\u003cbr\u003elike of which was never known since the fearful night, a hundred years\u003cbr\u003ebefore, when a band of red men descended like a cyclone upon the little\u003cbr\u003ehamlet with its block-house, and left barely a dozen settlers alive to\u003cbr\u003etell the story of the visitation to their descendants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Gordon lived a mile from Briggsville with his widowed mother and his\u003cbr\u003eAunt Cynthia, a sister to his father, who had died five years before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe boy had no brother or sister; and as he was bright, truthful,\u003cbr\u003egood-tempered, quick of perception, and obedient, it can be well\u003cbr\u003eunderstood that he was the pride and hope of his mother and aunt, whose\u003cbr\u003ecircumstances were of the humblest nature. He attended the village school,\u003cbr\u003ewhere he was the most popular and promising of the threescore pupils\u003cbr\u003eunder the care of the crabbed Mr. Jenkins. He was as active of body as\u003cbr\u003emind, and took the lead among boys of his own age in athletic sports and\u003cbr\u003efeats of dexterity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne summer day the village of Briggsville blazed out in black and red and\u003cbr\u003ewhite, every available space being covered with immense posters, which in\u003cbr\u003eflaming scenes and gigantic type announced the coming of \"Jones's \u0026amp; Co.'s\u003cbr\u003eGreat Moral Menagerie and Transcontinental Circus, on its triumphal tour\u003cbr\u003ethrough the United States and Canada.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158000648432,"sku":"2940013289055","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013289055","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}