Excerpt from The Holly Tree, And, the Seven Poor Travellers Boots, and will assuredly make many fresh friends as here newly pictured by the cunning hand of an imaginative artist. Dickens himself often hit upon felicitous descriptions of his own work, and I fancy that he indicated the quality to which this little story owes its popularity when he wrote of it to Wilkie Collins, 'i think it's an odd idea, and gets some thing of the effect of 3. Fairy Story out of the most unlikely materials.' Unlikely as the episode might seem, fact has since borrowed from fiction, for our newspapers told us a few years ago of the elopement of a small couple of even fewer years than were those. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.