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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hs presented dead against you rIf I could work my will, said Scrooge, indig-nantly, every idiot who goes about withMerry Christmas, on his lips, should beboiled with his own pudding, and buried witha stake of holly through his heart. He should ! Uncle ! pleaded the nephew. Nephew! returned the uncle, sternly,keep Christmas in your own way, and letme keep it in mine. Keep it! repeated Scrooges nephew. But you dont keep it. Let me leave it alone, then, said Scrooge.Much good may it do you ! Much goodit has ever done you ! ; There are many things from which 1 mighthave derived good, by which 1 have notprofited, 1 dare say, returned the nephew :Christmas among the rest. But 1 am sure Ihave always thought of Christmas time, whenit has come round—apart from the venerationdue to its sacred name and origin, if anythingbelonging to it can be apart from that — as agood time : a kind, forgiving, charitable,pleasant time : the only time I know of, inthe long calendar of the year, when men and
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H (Tbrlstmas Carol women seem by one consent to open theirshut-up hearts freely, and to think of peoplebelow them as if they really were fellow-pas-sengers to the grave, and not another race ofcreatures bound on other journeys. And there-fore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap ofgold or silver in my pocket, 1 believe that ithas done me good, and will do me good ;and 1 say, God bless it ! The clerk in the Tank involuntarily ap-plauded : becoming immediately sensible ofthe impropriety, he poked the fire, and extin-guished the last frail spark for ever. *Letme hear another sound from you/said Scrooge, and youll keep your Christ-mas by losing your situation. You re quite apowerful speaker. Sir, he added, turning tohis nephew. 1 wonder you dont go intoParliament. Dont be angry, uncle. Come! Dinewith us to-morrow. Scrooge said that he would see him yes, indeed he did. He went the wholelength of the expression, and said that hewould see him in that extremity first. But why .^ cried Scro

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