Excerpt from The Tree of Light Slight is our actual knowledge of Caradoc. We do know that he was simple, brave, human. The Tree of Light is fiction, based on a fairly sound tradition. It is a greatly amplified version of the short story, How Christmas Came into Eng land, published in the Christmas number of Scribner's Magazine for 1909, and copyrighted by Charles Scribner's Sons. I wish to thank the Messrs. Scribner for permission to use in this volume the two drawings they had made by Frank Craig for the original story. For the name of the book I am indebted to Mrs. Julia Crawford Ivers. 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.