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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hat there was somethinggoing on ; and, to a fish, went gasping roundand round their little world in slow and pas-sionless excitement. The Grocers ! oh the Grocers ! nearlyclosed, with perhaps two shutters down, orone ; but through those gaps such glimpses !It was not alone that the scales descending onthe counter made a merry sound, or that thetwine and roller parted company so briskly,or that the canisters were rattled up anddown like juggling tricks, or even that theblended scents of tea and coffee were sograteful to the nose, or even that the raisinswere so plentiful and rare, the almonds soextremely white, the sticks of cinnamon solong and straight, the other spices so deli-cious, the candied fruits so caked and spottedwith molten sugar as to make the coldestlookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy,or that the French plums blushed in modesttartness from their highly-decorated boxes,or that everything was good to eat and in its So
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