Stave Three! Ample warning: I am not a professional reader, I probably pronounce words wrong, however there were no interruptions during this reading so that is remarkable! Any errors in the text are my own. Any character voices I blame on my encouraging audience who egged me cheerfully on to make some character voices and are undoubtedly my muses. This reading is dedicated to them: Sabrina, Elaine, Camille, Linda and Colleen, and my mom, Leslie, who first read A Christmas Carol to me when I was a lil dibbun and animated it to such liveliness as inspired me to read to my kids and now to you, every book I could lay my hands on. She loaned me that self-same worn copy for this reading. A Christmas Carol was published in 1843 and is in the public domain. It can be read in its entirety, for free, at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24022 If you have suggestions for further public domain reading, or are an author and would like to schedule a reading of your own, please reach out to me here, and get on the e-mail alert list and join us on Zoom! https://infusedoilers.aidaform.com/join-read-alouds