About this book
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
- English Christmas stories
- Short stories
- Christmas stories
- Social life and customs
- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- English Short stories
- Social conditions
