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Updated: May 28, 2025
Thus early did he begin to grasp the philosophy of the truth of fiction. Long before we left Concord for England he had published Tangle-wood Tales, not to mention the biography of Franklin Pierce.
And when Eustace tells his hearers that if the dark-haired man dwelling in the cottage yonder were simply to put some sheets of writing-paper in the fire, all of them and Tangle-wood itself would turn into cinders and vanish in smoke up the chimney even the present chronicler saw the point; though, at the same time, he somehow could not help believing in the reality of Primrose, Buttercup, Dandelion, Squash-blossom, and the rest.
For many, very many years I have walked in a pleasant garden, enjoying sweet odors and soothing spectacles; no predetermined itinerary has controlled my course; I have wandered whither I pleased, and very many times I have strayed so far into the tangle-wood and thickets as almost to have lost my way.
Many passages in the intercalated chapters, describing the adventures of Eustace Bright and the Tangle-wood children, are based on facts well known to his own two youngsters.
He presently went away hoping that the oak stick had fallen into a crevice of the rocks or amongst the brambles which grew out of them; there was a lot of tangle-wood about that spot, and it was quite possible that the stick, kicked violently away, had fallen where it would never be discovered. And there was yet a chance for him to make that possible discovery impossible.
What could be gained in that wretched country, where there was nothing but thicket, thicket! General Grant saw his danger, and, no doubt, divined the object of his adversary, to arrest and cripple him in this tangle-wood, where numbers did not count, and artillery could not be used. There was but one thing to do to get out of the jungle.
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