A Christmas Carol

Preface

Words you’ll meet in this part (5)
preface
An introduction to a book or speech.
endeavoured
Made a sincere and determined effort to achieve something.
humour
The quality of being amusing or funny.
themselves
Used as a reflexive pronoun to refer to a group previously mentioned.
haunt
To visit or inhabit as a ghost or spirit.

A Christmas Carol 5 new words

I have in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of with , with each other, with the season, or with me. May it their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

C. D.

December, 1843.

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