{"product_id":"2940014087001","title":"The Year Of The Big Thaw","description":"Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from\u003cbr\u003e another world--never doubting the right of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_You say that Matthew is your own son, Mr. Emmett?_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes, Rev'rend Doane, and a better boy never stepped, if I do say it as\u003cbr\u003eshouldn't. I've trusted him to drive team for me since he was eleven,\u003cbr\u003eand you can't say more than that for a farm boy. Way back when he was a\u003cbr\u003elittle shaver so high, when the war came on, he was bounden he was going\u003cbr\u003eto sail with this Admiral Farragut. You know boys that age--like runaway\u003cbr\u003ecolts. I couldn't see no good in his being cabin boy on some tarnation\u003cbr\u003eNavy ship and I told him so. If he'd wanted to sail out on a whaling\u003cbr\u003eship, I 'low I'd have let him go. But Marthy--that's the boy's Ma--took\u003cbr\u003eon so that Matt stayed home. Yes, he's a good boy and a good son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe'll miss him a powerful lot if he gets this scholarship thing. But I\u003cbr\u003e'low it'll be good for the boy to get some learnin' besides what he gets\u003cbr\u003ein the school here. It's right kind of you, Rev'rend, to look over this\u003cbr\u003eapplication thing for me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Well, if he is your own son, Mr. Emmett, why did you write 'birthplace\u003cbr\u003eunknown' on the line here?_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRev'rend Doane, I'm glad you asked me that question. I've been turnin'\u003cbr\u003eit over in my mind and I've jest about come to the conclusion it\u003cbr\u003ewouldn't be nohow fair to hold it back. I didn't lie when I said Matt\u003cbr\u003ewas my son, because he's been a good son to me and Marthy. But I'm not\u003cbr\u003ehis Pa and Marthy ain't his Ma, so could be I stretched the truth jest a\u003cbr\u003emite. Rev'rend Doane, it's a tarnal funny yarn but I'll walk into the\u003cbr\u003emeetin' house and swear to it on a stack o'Bibles as thick as a cord of\u003cbr\u003ewood.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079871807728,"sku":"2940014087001","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087001_p0.jpg?v=1763609659","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}