CHAPTER 1

The story is about a ghost who lived in Canterville Chase. Lord Canterville sold
the house to [Link]. However, Lord Canterville told about the ghost, [Link] bought
the house anyway because he didn’t believe in [Link] Otis’s family were happy
to live in a house with a ghost. [Link] was an american businessman, his wife
[Link] was beautiful and looked as an englishwoman. Washington was their oldest
son, he was good looking(handsome) and he was very good at dancing. Virginia, a
fifteen year old girl, loved painting and riding horses. The twins were happy and
noisy boys. They were always laughing and playing tricks.
At first when the family got off the train the sky was bright blue and it was a lovely
july but when they arrived at Canterville castle the sky was full of black clouds and it
started to [Link] old woman in a black dress was standing in the doorway of the
house, waiting for [Link] entered the house and followed [Link], the
housekeeper, to the library. In the living-room they took off their coats, sat down and
drank tea. Suddenly, [Link] saw a bloodstain on the floor and [Link] told
them about Sir Simon Ghost. His wife Eleonore was murdered by him and she was
standing in the same place where the stain [Link] tried to clean it up, the
bloodstain disappeared but at that moment a terrible storm began outside and the
housekeeper fainted.

CHAPTER 2

Next morning when the family had breakfast, the bloodstain was on the library
floor again. Washington cleaned it everyday but the stain appeared again and again.
One night, the family was in bed, and a strange noise woke [Link] sounded like
something metal moving slowly along the [Link] got out of bed, took a small
bottle from his cupboard and opened the door of his room.
He saw an old man with eyes as red as fire, his clothes were old and full of
[Link] were heavy metal chains around his arms and his [Link] told him
that he should put some oil on his noisy chains. The ghost was very angry. He
knocked the bottle of oil on to the floor and hurried [Link] gave a terrible cry and
went to the top of the stairs. But suddenly the twins appeared and they threw a large
pillow at him. The ghost was angry and [Link] remembered the past when
everybody had been afraid of him.

CHAPTER 3

[Link] was cross when he saw the bottle of oil lying on the floor of the passage.
However the rest of the week was quiet, but Washington cleaned the bloodstain
everyday, the stain was on the library’s floor again and [Link] also changed
[Link] day it was red but then purple or bright green. The Otis’s family thought
that it was funny and each morning they went downstairs to see the color of the
stain.
Next Sunday night, he put on a suit of armour, but it was too heavy for him and he
fell on the floor with a loud crash. All the men in the Otis family jumped out of bed
and hurried [Link] found the unhappy ghost sitting there, holding his head
and crying softly with pain. The twins began to shoot little balls of paper at him and
[Link] with his handgun said to the ghost that he held up his [Link] the top of the
stairs, he gave a terrible ghostly laugh and [Link] appeared with a bottle of
stomach medicine. He was very angry and he turned himself into a big black dog
and then disappeared.
After that he was ill but when he felt better he decided to try for the third time to
frighten the Otis’s family. He decided on a dead man's shroud, a large black hat with
a red feather in it and a long knife. That night, he planned to visit one by one in their
room and frighten [Link] and silently the ghost moved through the house,
while the Otis family went to [Link] the corner of the passage, the ghost stopped
for a minute. He saw in front of him the most terrible ghost. It had a large head with
no hair on it and carried a large piece of paper with a strange writing on [Link]
ghost did not wait to read it and began to run as fast as he [Link] he felt better
he went to the other [Link] suddenly he noticed that the other ghost was not true
and read the piece of paper. It said The Otis ghost was the only real ghost, the
others were false. He ununderstood everything, it was a trick from the twins and
Washington.

CHAPTER 4

For the next few days the ghost stayed in his [Link] was very tired so he decided
to stop putting the bloodstain on the library floor. He used Tammany’s sun oil on his
chains and nobody saw or heard him. However the twins still went on with their
[Link] usually put things in his way in dark corners and he fell over them. This
made him very angry so he decided to frighten the boys as the “Duke With No
Head”. He went to their bedroom and a heavy jug of water fell right down on him
while the boys were laughing. He was wet from top to bottom. He ran to his room
and the next day he was ill with a bad cold.
After this, he decided to stop trying to frighten the American family. [Link] believed
the ghost had gone away, but he was [Link] ghost still was in the castle

CHAPTER 5

A few days after this, Virginia and the Duke of Cheshire were horse- riding through
some woods when one of the trees caught Virginia's Skirt and made a big hole in
[Link] wanted to change her skirt and on the way to her bedroom she went past a
room which was not often used.
To her surprise, Virginia saw the Canterville ghost. He was sitting near the
[Link] head was on his hand, and he looked very unhappy. Virginia fell sorry for
him, she went quietly into the [Link] ghost was also surprised to see
[Link] started to talk. They talk about the murdered of his wife. He said that
he killed her because she was beautiful and she was a bad housekeeper. He
confessed that her brothers tried to kill him, and locked him in a room without food
and water until he died. Virginia felt sorry for him but then she said angrily that he
took the paints out of her paint box to make the bloodstain in the library. They were
arguing for a moment but then he said that he was very tired and he could not sleep
for three hundred years. She began to feel sorry for him once more. She offered to
do something for him to help him to rest.
He asked her to pray for him. If she prayed and cried for all the bad things he had
done, death would be kind for him and at the end he could rest in peace.
She decided to help him.

CHAPTER 6

When dinner time came, Virginia disappeared. Everybody looked at her but she
didn’t appear anywhere. Just before midnight, they went back to the house. They
were very worried, but [Link] told his family to get some sleep and they started
again to look for her the next morning. They were standing at the bottom of the stairs
when the clock sounded midnight. Suddenly, a secret door opened in the wall at the
top of the stairs and walked out of Virginia. She took the family to a small dark room
at the end of a long corridor. There was a skeleton hanging from a metal ring on the
wall. The girl told the family that when Sir Simon. She told them that the spirit is
finally dead with her help. Four days later, Mr Otis arranged a funeral for Sir Simon.
The lord who sold the house to them also attended the funeral and thanked the
daughter for her help. He told her to keep the jewels in the box,although they
belonged to his family.
A few years later, the young girl married a young Duke and became a duchess. She
never told anyone what she experienced when she disappeared with the ghost. She
always thought about the ghost with love and felt happy that he was resting in peace
in the church yard, just as he wished.