
I picked up this nicely illustrated Dickens short story today, "Doctor" being the MCs given name, after the physician shown on the cover delivering him by the roadside.
Marigold is a "cheap jack", a name for a pedlar I've not come across before. This is one of several stories, or "prescriptions" (3 by Dickens), featuring Marigold, written by various authors & published in the Christmas 1865 number of "All the Year Round". Mine is a 1945 edition.