“Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimneypiece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts, till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it”—Explain.

 These lines are extracted from Charles Lamb's autobiographical and romantic-essay Dream Children. Lamb always indulged in reverie and fantasized. Lamb always indulged in reverie and fantasized the heavenly essence of family life which he never got in his life. Lamb's imaginative world consisted of his adolescent memories. his affectionate grandmother and the haunted house in which she lived. Mrs Field's great Norfolk house had a gruesome history. It tells us a mournful story, in the form of a ballad about a pretty pair of children murdered in a Norfolk wood by two ruffians with the consent of their uncle. In Bishop Percy's “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry” we find this ballad, called “The Children in the Wood”.

This pathetic subject was engraved upon the wooden chimney-piece in the great halls of the Norfolk house. This wooden piece reminded him how the two innocent children were killed in the wood and left without burial! Robin Redbreasts out of pity veiled their dead bodies with leaves and gave the two unlucky corpses a decent burial. This interesting wooden chimney-piece was replaced by a marble one, which had no story carved on it, by the new owner of the house. Lamb, in these lines, has focused. on the block-headed stupidity and foolish vulgarity of the owner of Norfolk mansion.