{"product_id":"2940013517295","title":"THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA","description":"THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe little hunchback Zia toiled slowly up the steep road, keeping in the\u003cbr\u003edeepest shadows, even though the night had long fallen. Sometimes he\u003cbr\u003estaggered with weariness or struck his foot against a stone and\u003cbr\u003esmothered his involuntary cry of pain. He was so full of terror that he\u003cbr\u003ewas afraid to utter a sound which might cause any traveler to glance\u003cbr\u003etoward him. This he feared more than any other thing--that some man or\u003cbr\u003ewoman might look at him too closely. If such a one knew much and had\u003cbr\u003ekeen eyes, he or she might in some way guess even at what they might not\u003cbr\u003eyet see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince he had fled from the village in which his wretched short life had\u003cbr\u003ebeen spent he had hidden himself in thickets and behind walls or rocks\u003cbr\u003eor bushes during the day, and had only come forth at night to stagger\u003cbr\u003ealong his way in the darkness. If he had not managed to steal some food\u003cbr\u003ebefore he began his journey and if he had not found in one place some\u003cbr\u003ebeans dropped from a camel's feeding-bag, he would have starved. For\u003cbr\u003efive nights he had been wandering on, but in his desperate fear he had\u003cbr\u003elost count of time. When he had left the place he had called his home he\u003cbr\u003ehad not known where he was going or where he might hide himself in the\u003cbr\u003eend. The old woman with whom he had lived and for whom he had begged and\u003cbr\u003elabored had driven him out with a terror as great as his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Begone!\" she had cried in a smothered shriek. \"Get thee gone, accursed!\u003cbr\u003eEven now thou mayest have brought the curse upon me also. A creature\u003cbr\u003eborn a hunchback comes on earth with the blight of Jehovah's wrath upon\u003cbr\u003ehim. Go far! Go as far as thy limbs will carry thee! Let no man come\u003cbr\u003enear enough to thee to see it! If thou go far away before it is known,\u003cbr\u003eit will be forgotten that I have harbored thee.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152644423920,"sku":"2940013517295","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013517295_p0.jpg?v=1763582243","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013517295","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}