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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him to be buried in, to besure, replied the woman with a laugh.Somebody was fool enough to do it, but Itook it off again. If calico ant good enoughfor such a purpose, it is nt good enough foranything. Its quite as becoming to the body.He cant look uglier than he did in that one. Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.As they sat grouped about their spoil, in thescanty light afforded by the old manslamp, he viewed them with a detesta-tion and disgust, which could hardlyhave been greater, though they had beenobscene demons, marketing the corpseitself. Ha, ha! laughed the same woman,when old Joe, producing a flannel bag withmoney in it, told out their several gains uponthe ground. This is the end of it, you see !He frightened every one away from him whenhe was alive, to profit us when he was dead !Ha, ha, ha ! Spirit! said Scrooge, shuddering fromhead to foot, I see, I see. The case of thisunhappy man might be my own. My lifetends that way, now. Merciful Heaven ! whatis this.? * 139
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