Identifier: christmascarol00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A Christmas carol
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Coburn, Frederick Simpson
Subjects: Christmas stories Misers
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Went up to the lofty desk, * * *and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.^ 57
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H Cbrlstmas Carol have had her ears pulled by her mistress. Inthey all came, one after another ; some shyly,some boldly, some gracefully, some awk-wardly, some pushing, some pulling ; in theyall came, anyhow and everyhow. Away theyall went, twenty couple at once, hands halfround and back again the other way ; downthe middle and up again ; round and roundin various stages of affectionate grouping ;old top couple always turning up in thewrong place ; new top couple starting offagain, as soon as they got there ; all topcouples at last, and not a bottom one to helpthem. When this result was brought about,old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop thedance, cried out, Well done ! and the fid-dler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter,especially provided for that purpose. Butscorning rest upon his reappearance, he in-stantly began again, though there were nodancers yet, as if the other fiddler had beencarried home, exhausted, on a shutter; andhe were a bran-new man resolved to beathim out

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