{"product_id":"2940013301115","title":"The Iron Horse","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTREATS OF THE ENGINE-DRIVER'S HOUSE AND HOUSEHOLD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in\u003cbr\u003eEcuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare,\u003cbr\u003ein the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake which\u003cbr\u003ediurnally and hourly shocked little Gertie's dwelling, quivered the\u003cbr\u003ewhite dimity curtains of little Gertie's bed and shook little Gertie's\u003cbr\u003eframe.  A graceful, rounded little frame it was; yet strong, and firmly\u003cbr\u003eknit--perhaps in consequence of its having been from infancy so\u003cbr\u003econstantly and so well shaken together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer neat little body was surmounted by a head which no sculptor in\u003cbr\u003esearch of an antique model would have chosen.  Gertie's profile was not\u003cbr\u003eGrecian; her features were not classic--but they were comely, and rosy,\u003cbr\u003eand so sweet that most people wanted to kiss them, and many people did.\u003cbr\u003eGertie did not object.  Probably, being only six, she imagined that this\u003cbr\u003ewas the ordinary and natural method of salutation.  Yet it was\u003cbr\u003eobservable that the child did not reciprocate kisses except in one or\u003cbr\u003etwo special cases.  She had evidently a mind of her own, a fact which\u003cbr\u003ewas displayed most strikingly, in the passionate manner in which she\u003cbr\u003ereciprocated the embraces of John Marrot, her father, when that large\u003cbr\u003ehairy individual came in of an evening, and, catching her in his long\u003cbr\u003earms, pressed her little body to his damp pilot-cloth-coated breast and\u003cbr\u003eher chubby face to his oily, smoke-and-soot begrimed countenance,\u003cbr\u003eforgetful for the moment of the remonstrance from his wife that was sure\u003cbr\u003eto follow:--","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068740550896,"sku":"2940013301115","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013301115_p0.jpg?v=1763579439","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013301115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}