{"product_id":"2940014593199","title":"THE DAMNED THING","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a\u003cbr\u003erough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an\u003cbr\u003eold account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently,\u003cbr\u003every legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of\u003cbr\u003ethe candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would\u003cbr\u003ethen throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of\u003cbr\u003efaces and figures; for besides the reader, eight other men were present.\u003cbr\u003eSeven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless,\u003cbr\u003eand, the room being small, not very far from the table. By extending an\u003cbr\u003earm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the\u003cbr\u003etable, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He\u003cbr\u003ewas dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all\u003cbr\u003eseemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was\u003cbr\u003ewithout expectation. From the blank darkness outside came in, through\u003cbr\u003ethe aperture that served for a window, all the ever unfamiliar noises\u003cbr\u003eof night in the wilderness--the long, nameless note of a distant coyote;\u003cbr\u003ethe stilly pulsing thrill of tireless insects in trees; strange cries of\u003cbr\u003enight birds, so different from those of the birds of day; the drone of\u003cbr\u003egreat blundering beetles, and all that mysterious chorus of small sounds\u003cbr\u003ethat seem always to have been but half heard when they have suddenly\u003cbr\u003eceased, as if conscious of an indiscretion. But nothing of all this was\u003cbr\u003enoted in that company; its members were not overmuch addicted to idle\u003cbr\u003einterest in matters of no practical importance; that was obvious in\u003cbr\u003eevery line of their rugged faces--obvious even in the dim light of the\u003cbr\u003esingle candle. They were evidently men of the vicinity--farmers and\u003cbr\u003ewoodmen.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074023571696,"sku":"2940014593199","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014593199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}