The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens

This etext was prepared from the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories" edition 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