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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animal, an animal that growled and gruntedsometimes, and talked sometimes, and livedin London, and walked about the streets, andwas nt made a show of, and was nt led byanybody, and did nt live in a menagerie, andwas never killed in a market, and was not ahorse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or atiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.At every fresh question that was put to him,this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter ;and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he wasobliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. Atlast the plump sister, falling into a similarstate, cried out : I have found it out ! I know what it is,Fred ! 1 know what it is 1 What is it? cried Fred.It s your Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge ! Which it certainly was. Admiration was theuniversal sentiment, though some objectedthat the reply to Is it a bear? ought tohave been Yes ; inasmuch as an answer inthe negative was sufficient to have divertedtheir thoughts from Mr. Scrooge, supposingthey had ever had any tendency that

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