What simple delights are in store in a visit to the wooden clog maker who lives in the forest.

Andre Thurier, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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Today's story appeared in a collection of Christmas stories by French and Spanish writers,

translated by Antoinette Ogden.

It's a sweet little story with some beautiful imagery.

By the way, a saboteer is a maker of wooden shoes or clogs.

I hope you like it.

And now, Christmas in the Forest by André Thurier.

Thank you. by André Thurier. Christmas Eve that year was bleak and cold, and the village seemed benumbed.

The houses were closed hermetically, and so were the stables, from which came the muffled

sound of animals chewing the cud.

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