Chapter 1 of 6

Preface

Prefacio

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

HE PROCURADO en este pequeño libro de Fantasmas suscitar el Fantasma de una Idea que no ponga a mis lectores de mal humor consigo mismos, ni con los demás, ni con la temporada, ni conmigo. Que ronde sus casas placenteramente, y que nadie desee ahuyentarlo.

endeavoured — procurado, me he esforzado · out of humour — de mal humor, molesto · lay it — ahuyentarlo, exorcizarlo

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

Su fiel Amigo y Servidor,

C. D.

December, 1843.

Diciembre de 1843.