e" "I will honour Christmas in my heart and
try to keep it all the year".

Why are the scenes in this chapter not so
pleasant as those that the two former spirits
had shown him? The scenes that the first spirit
had brought before him were his joys at the
Christmas season before he had hardened his
heart; those that the second spirit had shown
were scenes in the lives of people who do
something for others and enjoy themselves in
the true Christmas spirit; those that the last
spirit had shown were the sordid scenes which
would be sure to come if he did not change his
attitude toward life. The last scenes shown him
by the third spirit furnish a strong contrast
to the others.

Stave V

What does this chapter relate? How Scrooge
actually kept Christmas Day.

What were the other chapters about? The first
and the last were the only chapters where he
was awake. Chapters Two, Three, and Four are
visions or dreams. Notice how the phantom
changed into the bed-post.

This chapter should be studied closely. Who
wrote this story? Charles Dickens, an English
novelist.

Do you know any other good stories by the same
author? _David Copperfield_, _The Pickwick
Papers_, _Nicholas Nickleby_.

Yes, we have had extracts in the Readers from
these books.

What lessons are they? _The Pickwick Club on
the Ice_, in the _Third Book_; _David
Copperfield's First Journey Alone_, and _The
Indignation of Nicholas Nickleby_ in the
_Fourth Book_.

Some day you must read these stories. _David
Copperfield_ tells us a great deal about
Dickens' early days. _The Pickwick Papers_ is
full of humour in scenes such as that depicted
in _The Pickwick Club on the Ice_, and has some
fine characters in it, and _Nicholas Nickleby_
gives a vivid picture of the brutality existing
in some schools in England at the time the book
was written.

THE LADY OF THE LAKE

(Fourth Reader, page 270)

The pupils will have read the account of the stirring combat between
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu. They will be curious to know the
circumstances that led up to this combat and also the conclusion of the
story.