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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this poor mans child. Oh God ! to hear theInsect on the leaf pronouncing on the toomuch life among his hungry brothers in thedust ! Scrooge bent before the Ghosts rebuke, andtrembling cast his eyes upon the ground. Buthe raised them speedily, on hearing his ownname. Mr. Scrooge ! said Bob ; 1 11 give youMr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast ! The Founder of the Feast indeed ! criedMrs. Cratchit, reddening. 1 wish 1 had himhere. I d give him a piece of my mind tofeast upon, and I hope he d have a goodappetite for it. My dear, said Bob, the children!Christmas Day. It should be Christmas Day, I am sure,said she, on which one drinks the health ofsuch an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling manas Mr. Scrooge. You know he is, Robert !Nobody knows it better than you do, poorfellow ! My dear, was Bobs mild answer, Christmas Day. 1 11 drink his health for your sake and theDays, said Mrs. Cratchit, not for his. Long 94 H Gbrtstmas Carol
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life to him ! A Merry Christmas and a HappyNew Year ! He 11 be very merry and veryhappy, I have no doubt ! The children drank the toast after her. Itwas the first of their proceedings which hadno heartiness in it. Tiny Tim drank it last ofall, but he did nt care twopence for it. Scroogewas the Ogre of the family. The mention ofhis name cast a dark shadow on the party,which was not dispelled for full five minutes. After it had passed away, they were tentimes merrier than before, from the mere re-lief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situationin his eye for Master Peter, which would bringin, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly.The two young Cratchits laughed tremend-ously at the idea of Peters being a man ofbusiness ; and Peter himself looked thought-fully at the fire from between his collars, as ifhe were deliberating what particular invest-ments he should favour when he came intothe receipt of that bewildering income. Mar-tha, who was a

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