The Holly-Tree

The Holly-Tree, by Charles Dickens
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Title: The Holly-Tree
Author: Charles Dickens Release Date: April 3, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1394]
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Transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition of “Christmas Stories” by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE HOLLY-TREE—THREE BRANCHES
FIRST BRANCH—MYSELF
I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now. I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by
original constitution and character a bashful man. But I will leave the reader unmoved, and proceed with the object before me. That object is to give a plain account of my travels and discoveries in the HollyTree Inn; in which place of good entertainment for man and ...