A Christmas Story Author:Jean Shepherd "...miliseconds later I knew thatold Santa had come through! A long, heavy,red-wrappedpackage, marked 'To Ralphie from Santa,' had been left somehow behind the curtains. In an instant the wrappings were off, and there it was! A Red Ryder carbine-action range-model BB gun lay in its crinkly white packing, blue-steel barrel gracefuland taut, it... more »s dark, polished stock gleaming like all the treasures of the Western world."« less