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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h homewardhopes belonging to it. And every man onboard, waking or sleeping, good or bad, hadhad a kinder word for another on that daythan on any day in the year ; and had sharedto some extent in its festivities ; and had re-membered those he cared for at a distance,and had known that they delighted to remem-ber him. It was a great surprise to Scrooge, whilelistening to the moaning of the wind, andthinking what a solemn thing it was to moveon through the lonely darkness over an un-known abyss, whose depths were secrets asprofound as Death : it was a great surprise toScrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a heartylaugh. It was a much greater surprise toScrooge to recognise it as his own nephewsand to fmd himself in a bright, dry, >i^^^~/gleaming room, with the Spirit stand- ^ ing smiling by his side, and looking at thatsame nephew with approving affability. Ha, ha! laughed Scrooges nephew.^Ha, ha, ha ! If you should happen, by any unlikelychance, to know a man more blest in a laugh lOI
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H Cbristmas Carol than Scrooges nephew, all I can say is, Ishould like to know him too. Introduce himto me, and I 11 cultivate his acquaintance. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustmentof things, that while there is infection in dis-ease and sorrow, there is nothing in the worldso irresistibly contagious as laughter andgood-humour. When Scrooges nephewlaughed in this way : holding his sides, roll-ing his head, and twisting his face into themost extravagant contortions : Scroogesniece, by marriage, laughed as heartily as he.And their assembled friends being not a bitbehindhand, roared out, lustily. Ha, ha ! Ha, ha, ha, ha ! He said that Christmas was a humbug, asI live ! cried Scrooges nephew. Hebelieved it too ! More shame for him, Fred! saidScrooges niece, indignantly. Bless thosewomen ; they never do anything by halves.They are always in earnest. She was very pretty : exceedingly pretty.With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capitalface ; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made tobe ki

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