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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rtsand waggons ; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times wherethe great streets branched off, and made in-tricate channels, hard to trace, in the thickyellow mud and icy water. The sky wasgloomy, and the shortest streets were chokedup with dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen,whose heavier particles descended in a showerof sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in GreatBritain had, by one consent, caught fire, andwere blazing away to their dear hearts content. There was nothing very cheerful in the cli-mate or the town, and yet was there anair of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest sum-mer air and brightest summer sun might haveendeavoured to diffuse in vain. For, the people who were shovelling awayon the house-tops were jovial and full of glee ;calling out to one another from the parapets,and now and then exchanging a facetioussnowball — better-natured missile far thanmany a wordy jest — laughing heartily if itwent right and not less heartily if it went 78
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H Cbristmas Carol wrong. The poulterers shops were still halfopen, and the fruiterers were radiant in theirglory. There were great, round, pot-belliedbaskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waist-coats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at thedoors, and tumbling out into the street intheir apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy,brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions,shining in the fotness of their growth likeSpanish Friars ; and winking from their shelvesin wanton slyness at the girls as they wentby, and glanced demurely at the hung-upmistletoe. There were pears and apples, clus-tered high in blooming pyramids ; there werebunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepersbenevolence, to dangle from conspicuoushooks, that peoples mouths might watergratis as they passed ; there were piles offilberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in theirfragrance, ancient walks among the woods,and pleasant shufflings ankle deep throughwithered leaves ; there were Norfolk Biffins,squab, and swarthy, setting off the

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