![Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty. He was middle sized and he had very pale blue eyes. He had a pale brown suit but on Sundays he had a black one and he had a topper every day as he thorght it more becoming.
- Daisy Ashford (age 9), The Young Visiters (1919) [full text]
Thanks to Katie Coyle for this wonderful find.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldog5pQZN21qamjklo1_400.jpg)
Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty. He was middle sized and he had very pale blue eyes. He had a pale brown suit but on Sundays he had a black one and he had a topper every day as he thorght it more becoming.
- Daisy Ashford (age 9), The Young Visiters (1919) [full text]
Thanks to Katie Coyle for this wonderful find.
![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.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C. D.
December 1843
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Original Manuscript) (1843) [full text]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldfh5k6sqC1qamjklo1_500.png)
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.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C. D.
December 1843
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Original Manuscript) (1843) [full text]
