{"product_id":"2940148698142","title":"Harbor Jim of Newfoundland by Alden Eugene Bartlett","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003eHe was a fisherman. His clothes told me that, but there was to his walk an elasticity, a certain springiness that the fishermen I knew had lacked. He carried his head higher, his back was straighter. He walked as the son of a King might have walked, who had decided for the time to travel incognito and had chosen the garb of a fisherman.\u003cbr\u003eNow and then I would get a little ahead of him for the chance of looking back and up into his face. The very smile with which he had closed my mouth lingered and lit his face, just as light sometimes lingers on clouds at sunset. I fell to wondering how long it would last, just as sometimes I had estimated the length of sunsets.\u003cbr\u003eWe came to a house and a little girl, seeing him, came running down and, without a word, slipped her hand into the man's and walked on some three rods and then left him and went back into the house from which she had come. She also smiled and seemed glad to walk and be silent.\u003cbr\u003eThe houses increased in number as we came down the hill. Two boys came and, grabbing each a hand of my companion, walked a little way with him. This time he bestowed upon the boys, not words but a marble a piece. The boys utterly ignored me, kept their eyes rivetted upon him and left, giving him a hearty \"Thank you!\"\u003cbr\u003eWhen we came to the last dip of the hill that descends into the city, he paused and, keeping his eyes on the western sky, said:\u003cbr\u003e\"Hard on you, sir! I didn't intend to be rude, but since I was converted I have to have more time to myself. Seems only fair that a fellow should have a little time now and then to enjoy his own company. Here's a good place to watch the Lord as He blesses the city at the close of the day.\"\u003cbr\u003eHe waved me to a seat beside him and we sat watching. The silence was not as oppressive. I was a little nearer to my companion and the great gray clouds suffused with pink rivetted my attention. As the sunset waned and the cold, gray of night came on, he got up and, starting toward the city, said:\u003cbr\u003e\"Thank you for praying with me.\"","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084286345456,"sku":"2940148698142","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148698142_p0.jpg?v=1763706685","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148698142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}