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Hello and welcome to meet as pod I'm your host de minas. As far

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back as I can remember, I have loved A Christmas Carol by

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Charles Dickens and its many many forms Scrooged starring

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Bill Murray and Muppet Christmas Carol, the stage play the radio

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drama all of it. Well, on this episode, we have a full cast

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production of Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol,

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starring Kyle a bear as Ebenezer Scrooge. Stay tuned after the

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story for a full cast list. Without further ado, A Christmas

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Carol by Charles Dickens.

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Molly was dead to begin with. There's no doubt whatever about

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that. The Register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the

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cleric, The Undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it

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and screwed his name was good upon change for anything he

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chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was dead as a doornail.

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Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. Scrooge and

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Marley were partners for I don't know how many years but he was a

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tight fisted hand of the old Grindstone was Scrooge

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squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous

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old sinner, and once upon a time, of all the good days in

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the year, on Christmas Eve, old Scrooge that busy in his

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counting house, at grim, cheerless place, if there ever

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was one. The door of Scrooges counting house was open that he

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might keep an eye on his clerk Bob Cratchit who and a cold and

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dismal sell beyond worked on his Ledger's.

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2021 22 Rushing Merry Gentlemen lead nothing new this May 2326

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to nine nine carry to on Christmas Day. 11 1317 Seven

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project Yes, Mr. Scrooge. Stop that in fertile caterwauling.

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Yes sir. No. 1517 21 Carry the one

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all the impudence singing their idiotic Christmas carols at my

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very door go on Get away from my door go somewhere else and

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bellow your blasted Carol's I'll give you in charge.

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Sorry, Governor. Easter no customer at Christmas time you

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know? Yes. And I don't want any of your old customs. Take your fellow fools

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and go away. Christmas. Yeah. Oh, right. say Merry Christmas

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anyway. So now you get that letter from Higgins and

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blackthorn Cratchit and then I want you to finish posting this

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ledger. And after that you can pop over to foster girls and

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tell Heath Rumford. You You've come after the 17 shillings and

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six pence he's owed me since micromass and tell him I shall

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have a constable over there. If he doesn't pay up at once.

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Mr. Foster Gil's wife has been ill sir.

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What do I care about his wife? I want my 17 and six.

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I just thought it being Christmas. Christmas Christmas. You mentioned that word to me once

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more Bob Cratchit. And Merry Christmas uncle. Merry

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Christmas, Bob. Merry Christmas, Mr. Fred.

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God save you Uncle umberg Christmas a humbug uncle. Now

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I'm sure you don't mean that. I mean, just that exactly that Merry Christmas. What right have

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you to be merry? What reason have you You're poor enough?

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But what right have you to be dismal about Christmas uncle?

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You're rich enough? Yeah. Now don't be cross uncle.

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Well, what else can I be when I live in such a world of fools?

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What's Christmas to you? What a time for paying bills with our

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money. Merry Christmas a time for finding herself a year older

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and not an hour richer. If I could work my will. Every idiot

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who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips would be

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boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stick of holly

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through his heart. He shouldn't call now nephew. Keep Christmas

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in your own way. And let me keep it in mind.

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Keep it but you don't keep it uncle.

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Well, let me leave it alone. Then. What do you want a

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Christmas gift? No doubt. I came to wish you a Merry Christmas. Uncle,

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Merry Christmas much good make Christmas Do you, much good and

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ever has done you. There are many things from which I derived Good buy which I have

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not profited materially I test say uncle Christmas among the

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rest. But I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time

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a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. And therefore,

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uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my

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pocket. I believe it has done me good and will do me good. And I

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say God bless it. God bless Christmas hora.

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Let me hear another sound out if you project that you'll keep

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your Christmas by losing your situation. Yes. And as to you

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nephew. I wonder you don't go into parliament. You talk enough

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nonsense. Oh, don't be angry uncle. I want nothing from you. I asked

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nothing of you. Why can't we be friends? Good afternoon. I'm

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sorry. You feel that way? Well, I've tried a Merry Christmas to

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you, uncle. Good afternoon. And a happy new year to bah humbug.

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And a Merry Christmas to you, Bob. And the Mrs. And to Tony,

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Tim. Thank you, Mr. Crate. Same to you, sir. Good day, sir. Good

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day, Bob. Nonsense. Quite all farmerie Talking of Christmas and not to

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six pence to jangle together in his trousers pocket. Hey, you,

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Bob Cratchit. Come here. What are you doing there?

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I'm only putting a bit more coal in the fire. Mr. Scrooge. See,

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it's so cold in this. You will put that call back into the scuttle a fire a fire

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indeed. I can tell you if you use coal at that rate. You and I

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will soon be parted company. Bob Cratchit. You understand that?

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There's many a young fellow that would like your situation, you

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know. I'm sorry, sir. My fingers. Were getting a little stiff with the

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cold. Well then put on your mittens. Someone at the door. Go on. See

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what is. Yes, sir.

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Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. This is the firm of

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Scrooge and Molly. Yes, sir. I should like to see the head of

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the firm if I may. Oh, very good, sir. What is it? A gentleman to see you, Mr.

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Scrooge? Have I had the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr.

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Molly? Ma has been dead the seven years tonight. I'm Scrooge. Well, now

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Mr. Scrooge at this season of the year. It's only fitting that

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we who are more fortunate should raise the funds to buy the poor

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some meat and drink and means of warmth. You may not believe it's

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many 1000s are now in want of common necessities. And hundreds

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of 1000s are unwanted simplest comfort.

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Are there no prisons? Well, there

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are plenty of prisons, sir. And workhouses. They're still in operation I trust.

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I wish I could say they are not. But they are sir.

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The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigor that are both

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very busy, sir. Ah,

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I'm glad to hear it. I was afraid from what you said at

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first that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course.

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No. So all these institutions you mentioned are flourishing.

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But it's nevertheless true that some additional provisioning for

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the poor and destitute must be made of few of us upon change

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are endeavouring to raise such a fund you see, and what should I

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put you down for? Nothing. Oh, I see. You wish to remain

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anonymous. I wish to be left alone. I don't make marry myself Christmas time and I can

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afford to help make a lot of idle people. Mary, I helped to

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support the establishments that take care of the poor they cost

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enough. Let those who are badly off go there.

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Many can't go there, sir. And many would rather die.

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Well, then my advice to them is to do so and decrease the

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surplus population. Besides, I've only your word for it

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that all this is so it's the truth, Mr. Scrooge?

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Well, so be it then. It's not my business. It's enough for a man

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to understand his own business and not to interfere with other

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people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, sir.

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I quite understand Mr. Scrooge. Good afternoon.

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crotchet show this gentleman out.

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Yes, sir. This way, sir. Please. Sir. I couldn't help

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overhearing. I should like to contribute topics Karachi. Yes,

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sir. It isn't much, but it's all I can afford. But there are

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others in worse situations than I

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hear a generous fellow. No, I wish I might say so. Of your

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employer. crotch out. Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir.

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Good afternoon. cron jobs. Mary Christmas.

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Merry Christmas. Yes, sir. Close the door.

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Yes sir. 2431 one carry three. A new scallop tip if attorney Tim

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cone from Arthur 33. Three and carry three. A haven for Belinda

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for 712 15. Project 50. Yes, sir.

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still like to have you got to forfeit girls. You'll be closed

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up for Christmas like those other fools. We may as well

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close up the place now. Yes, sir. It is getting a little dark, hard to see the figures.

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I suppose you'll want the entire day tomorrow. If it's quite

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convenient. It's not convenient. And it's not fair either. But I

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suppose I can't do anything about it. If I was to stop half

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a crown of your wages. You'd think you're so very ill used

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I'll be bound. Well, sir, is but you don't think me ill used when

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I pay a day's wages for no work. It's only once a year, sir. Once

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a year, once a year indeed a fine excuse for picking up man's

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pocket every 25th of December. But I suppose there's no good

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talking. You must have the whole day. Well see that you're here

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all the earlier the next morning, you understand?

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Oh, I will, sir. I will indeed. Good notes, and Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas ah. The office was closed in a twinkling and Bob Cratchit with

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the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his

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waist, for he boasted no gray coat, went down a slide on corn

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Hill 20 times in honor of it being Christmas Eve and then ran

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down home to Camden Town as hard as he could Pelt to play with

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his family at blind man's bluff. Scrooge on the other hand, took

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his melancholy dinner and his usual melancholy tavern. And

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having read the newspapers and spent the rest of the evening in

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his bankers book went to his dismal house. Darkness is cheap,

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and Scrooge liked it. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge

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who knew it's every stone had to grow up with his hands through

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the fog and frost to find the door. Scrooge walked through his

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rooms to see that all was right. sitting room, bedroom, lumber

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room all as they should be. Nobody under the table. Nobody

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under the sofa. Nobody under the bed. Nobody in the closet.

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Closed the door. He locked himself in. He double locked

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himself in, took off his robot put on his dressing slippers and

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nightcap and sat down before the fire to take his Google

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Marley, Marley, Marley. I could have sworn I saw old bah humbug.

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Molly's been dead the seven years humbug all humbug. What I

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need is a good night's What's that? Someone's in the place

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where the door's locked and double locked. It's, it's

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coming. Something's coming closer. outside my door. I won't

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believe it. It's humbug. Still, Ebenezer Scrooge, Ebenezer Scrooge?

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Marley. Oh, no. What do you want to be?

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I want much of you Ebony's. Who who are you? Ask of me who I

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was. You're very particular for a ghost. All right, then. Who were

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you? In life? I was your partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley.

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But you're dead. You died seven years ago.

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Seven years ago. This very night. You are a ghost then?

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What's wrong, Ebenezer? Don't you believe in me?

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I do not. You doubt your senses. Ebenezer

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bear? Yes, because a little thing affects me a slight

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disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You can't be a

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ghost. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard,

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a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato that may be

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more of gravy than of gray. Eve about you wherever you are. Bah

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humbug, I tell you humbug.

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Oh, excuse me, excuse me. I do believe in you. You are a ghost

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Jacob. Thank you. Why do you walk the earth Jacob? Why do you

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come to me? It is required over every man that the spirit within him

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should walk broad among his fellow men and travel far and

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wide to witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on

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Earth and turn to happiness.

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But tell me Jacob did what is that chain you wear around you?

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I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard

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by yard by my own free will. Is its pattern strange to you

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Ebony's cash boxes, keys and padlocks, Ledger's and parses

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yours was as heavy and as long as this seven years ago. You

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have labored on it since Ebony's hace

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come? Speak comfort to me, Jacob.

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Comfort I have none to give. I cannot rest. I cannot stay I

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cannot linger. Weary journeys lie before me. You travel fast.

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Yes, Ebony's on the wings of the wind.

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Seven years dead and traveling all the time.

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Seven years Ebenezer seven years of remorse. Ebenezer? Do you

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know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's

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opportunities miss you. But you are always a good man of business. Jacob

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baseness. Mankind was my business, charity, mercy,

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benevolence. They were all my business. The dealings of my

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trade were bought a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean

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of my business.

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Not Jacob, Jacob to take on. So now. Jacob, listen to me,

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Ebenezer. I'm listening to you, Jacob. Go on Jacob. Now, speak

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to me. But don't be so flowery. Ebenezer. I am here to warn you that you have yet a chance of

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hope of escaping my fate. Do you hear that? Ebenezer?

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Yes, Jacob, who? You always were a good friend to me, Jacob.

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Thanks, Jacob. But, but go on. Go on. Go on. Go on. How shall I

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escape? Oh, I'm afraid

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Jacob. You will be haunted by three spirits? Is that the only

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chance and hope Jacob? It is your only chance and hope? Well,

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then I think I'd rather not. Without their visits, you cannot

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hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow when

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the bell tolls one.

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Could I take them all at once and have it over Jacob,

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Ebenezer? Look but for your own sake, you'll remember what has

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passed between us. And remember, when the bell tolls one, look

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for the spirit. Molly, tricot Marley,

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Scrooge awoke, he was laying in his bed fully dressed. Suddenly,

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the curtains of his bed were drawn aside and screwed found

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himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew him

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as close to it as I am to you now. And I am standing in the

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spirit at your elbow. It was a strange figure like a child yet?

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Not so like a child is like a grown woman. Its hair, which

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hung about its neck and down. Its back was white as it with

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age. And yet the face had not a wrinkle in it. And the tenderest

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bloom was on the skin. The arms were long and slender, the hands

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the same. Yet it's as if it's hold were of uncommon string,

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Ebenezer Scrooge? Who? Who such as Ebenezer Scrooge, I have come

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for you. Oh, you are hard you the spirit who's coming was foretold me.

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I am that spirit. Wow. What are you?

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I am the Ghost of Christmas Past Just long past. No. Your past.

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What do you want of me? What brings you here to haunt me?

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Your welfare, Ebenezer Scrooge rice and walk with me?

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, not out of the window. I can't do

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that I fall down. I'm not a spirit. I'm mortal and our fall,

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but a touch of my hand upon your heart. And you shall be upheld

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and more than this. Come follow me

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where are we? What's become of the city? Snow upon the ground?

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Where are we? These are the shadows of the things that have been. You

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recognize this country side? Oh, I know every inch of it's every rock every tree.

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And that Blake building over there. Oh, that building? I was a boy there. Yes. I went to school in

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that horrible place. Do you recollect that path?

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I could walk it blindfolded. Strange. You

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should forget it so many years. Come let us go closer. Look

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through the window into that cold, barren room. What do you

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see Ebenezer Scrooge see a boy?

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A solitary child neglected by his family. Hello?

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Yes, yes, I see. I know that boy. I was so lonely. Boy,

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your lip is trembling Scrooge. What's that on your cheek?

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It's nothing. Nothing at all. I wish I haven't. It's too late

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now. What's the matter? Nothing. Nothing. The wifs came to my door singing Christmas

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carols last night. And there was a boy like that among them. A

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poor pale, thin little boy and ragged coat. I should like to

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have given him something. That's all. Is that all? Ebenezer Scrooge, let us see another Christmas. Do

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you know this place Ebenezer Scrooge?

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No it this is the old counting house where I was apprentice.

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Listen. Well, it's my old master Bless his heart. old Fezziwig my

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master alive again and host of one of his Christmas parties.

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Listen to him. Hold hands with your partner bow and face away called screw

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thread the needle and back to your places.

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And there's dead Wilkins. Or dear God. Yes. And look, there's

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Ms. Fezziwig herself, looking younger than any of them. And

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the tables all loaded with roast insider and mince pie and beer.

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Oh, what a jolly time we used to have

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that carefree young man the light hearted gay smile. Do you

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recognize him? Yes, yes, yes. Merciful. Oh, happy I was then

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a small matter for orphans make to make those silly folks so

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full of joy. Small Matter. Small indeed,

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isn't it? He has spent only a few pounds of your mortal money

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is that so much that he deserves praise?

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It's not that it's not that spirit. old Fezziwig has the

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power to make us happy or unhappy to make our service

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light or heavy. His power lies in words and looks at hidden

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things so tiny that it's impossible to count them up. The

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happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs her.

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Yeah. What is the madam?

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Oh, nothing. Nothing at all spiritual.

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Something, I think. No, no. Speak. Well, only it's just that I should like to be

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able to say a word or two to my clerk. Bob Cratchit. That's all.

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Swearing to your partner addressed the entire bow and

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curtsy thread the needle.

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My time grows short. And we have yet another journey to make.

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Where no. Come

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This is our last visit to the past Ebenezer here in this

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little room with a fair young girl by your side. Do you

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recognize yourself up? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's very this.

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You're older now. A man in the prime of life. Your face has

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begun to weather signs of care. neveress Your eyes are greedy.

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be eager, restless eyes have a miser No, no, no, please. She

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knows that to that girl by your side. There are tears in her

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eyes. It matters little heaven Isa. You very little. I know that.

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Well, have I changed towards you? When we were engaged? We

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were both poor. Was it better than better to be poor?

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Better to at least be happy? You're changed. You were another

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man that was a boy, you blame me because I've grown wiser. If I

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ever tried to break our engagement, whites No,

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never. It was in, in a change

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nature, in an altered spirit in everything that made my love,

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have any value in your sight. So I release you from this promise?

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Bell. At first, it may cause you pain to lose me. A very brief

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pain. But soon it will be dim. Like a half remember dream, an

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unprofitable dream. And you will be glad to be awake from such a

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dream. May you be happy him the life you have chosen Ebenezer

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for the love of Him you want to work? It's enough. Show me no more. Take me home.

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These were shadows of things that have been that they are

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what they are. Do not blame me. No, no more. No more. One shadow

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more. Come. See this man, Ebenezer Scrooge, this man might have been you and

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the woman beside him. Your wife. And that girl? That girl might

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have been your daughter, Ebenezer Scrooge. She might have

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called you father. She might have been a springtime and the

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haggard winter of your life. Spirit. Let me go show me no more.

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Listen now while they speak Ebenezer?

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Well, I saw an old friend of yours today.

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Who was it? abacus? How can I? It's I know. Mr. Scrooge.

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Mr. Scrooge it was a pastor's office window. There wasn't

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shadows. There was a candle inside so I couldn't help seeing

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them as part of the Mali lights to the point of death, hi here.

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And then through sat all alone. Quite alone in the world. I do

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believe spiritual spirit. I can't bear any more leave me haunt me no

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more. Take me back. Take me back. Take me back. Take me

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back. From the stroke of one, Scrooge awakened suddenly and sat bolt

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upright in his own bed. He remembered the words of Marley's

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ghost and wondered from which direction the second Spectre

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would appear. At that moment, nothing between a baby and a

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rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, being

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prepared for almost anything he was not by any means prepared

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for nothing. And consequently, when no shape appeared, He was

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taken with a violent fit of trembling. Five minutes 10

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minutes. A quarter of an hour went by. Yet nothing came. Then,

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as he sat in his bed, he became aware gradually have a great

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blaze of ruddy light. It seemed to shine upon him from an

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adjoining room. He got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to

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the door. It was his own sitting room, no doubt about that. But

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it had undergone a surprising transformation. The walls and

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ceiling were so hung with living grain that it looked a perfect

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Grove, from every part of which bright gleaming berries glisten,

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and such a mighty Blaze went roaring up the chimney as had

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never been known in Scrooges time and for many and many a

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winter season gone. heaped up on the floor to form a kind of

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throne or turkeys, geese game poultry these great joints of

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meat sucking pigs long reads of sausage mince pies, Plum

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puddings, barrels of oysters, red hot chestnuts and the

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seething bowl of punch that made the chamber dem with their

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delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch, there was a

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jolly giant, glorious to see. He bore a glowing torch and shape

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not unlike glenties horn and held it up high up to shed its

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light on Scrooge as he came peeping around the door. I

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mean, come in Ebenezer Scrooge. I didn't know me better man. You

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you I have no Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me. You have

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never seeing the light of me but

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you're, you're different from the other spirit. You're tall,

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almost a giant and that great torch you carry

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it's light falls into the homes of the rich and the poor life.

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Spirit. Take me where you will last time I went against my will

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and learned a lesson which is working now. If you have

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anything to teach me, let me profit by it.

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Smile robe at Barney's us Rouge. Touch my robe

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Where have you brought me spirit and humbled dwellings on both Street?

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It's miserable enough. Yet? Where is happiness?

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Who are these people? Who's that woman and the children?

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Do you use all the family of your Cluck? Bob Cratchit

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Bo Missy is one wife dressed in a twice turn gown but brave in

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ribbons lay the table for Christmas dinner. Well, cystic

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is their daughter Melinda and the young man with a fork in the

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stuffing. Well, that's master Peter Krafcik and the two little

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graduates. Listen, Scrooge.

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Here's Martha mother. Children, children.

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God bless your heart and live Martha My Dear. Merry Christmas

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to you. Merry Christmas, mother. Merry Christmas.

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How late you are Madea Oh, we had a great deal of work to finish up last night. And we

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had to Caraway this morning. Well, nevermind so long as you're here now. sit you down

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before the fire Magdi and have a warm Lord bless you worse father

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has been to church with Tiny Tim. There'll be a long directly

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how is Tiny Tim mother any better at all?

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Sometimes I think he is. And sometimes I think Oh dear God,

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if anything should happen to tiny tin

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Mother, you mustn't even think of such a thing.

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Oh, Mother, I see father and Tiny Tim.

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They're here. There's Tiny Tim.

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Merry Christmas, everybody. Martha. Welcome, my dear.

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Now we Christmas father and tear. Merry Christmas, Martha.

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Oh, Tim. you darling. Take

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your coat off. Father. I'm so glad to be home. Um, we're

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so glad to have you, Martha. And how did little Tim behave in church Bob?

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Oh, as good as gold. I'm better. Oh,

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I like church mother. Oh, they sing the nicest songs. I hope

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people saw me there. saw you there. And why, Tim?

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Well, don't you see? Because I'm lame. And if they saw my crutch,

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it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day. Who

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it was the Maiden Lane beggars walk in blind men see?

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Bless you, my son. I'll be ready to eat

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mother. Yes, children. We're already come take your places

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now. And wait your turn. There's plenty of stuffing dressing and

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plum pudding for all of you. Martha. You take care of Tiny

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Tim. Yes, mother and see that he eats plenty. He must get strong

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and well. Let's sit down and sit down everyone.

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Ah, now my dad is shall we say grace? Our Father who art in

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heaven. Hallowed retuning,

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tell me if Tiny Tim will live.

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I see. Great conceit, as it isn't her love horror chimney

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corner and a crutch without an owner. carefully preserved.

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no kind spirit say he will be spared. We

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say you're live. Emily's shadows remain on altered by the future Ebenezer

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the child will die.

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And now my dears with such a dinner, a toast. A Merry

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Christmas to us all. And God blesses. God bless us, everyone.

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Her now to Mr. Scrooge. I give you a toast to Mr. Scrooge, the

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founder of the feast, the founder of the feast indeed. Who pays you all 15 shillings a

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week. Oh wish I hadn't here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to

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feast on and I hope you'd have a good appetite for

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it. My dear the children, Christmas Day,

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it should be Christmas day I'm sure on which one drinks to the

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health of such an odious, stingy and unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge

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you know knows he is Bob. Nobody knows it better than you do.

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Poor fellow, my dear Christmas Day,

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or drink his health for your sake, and the days, not for his

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long life to him. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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It'll be very merry and very happy. I have no doubt.

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I say God bless him to mother and everyone.

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That was nothing of hi Mark and all this. They were not a

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handsome family these Cratchit they were not well dressed.

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Their shoes were far from being waterproof. Their clothes were

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scanty and had known very likely the inside of a pawn brokers.

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But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another and

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contented with time. And when at last they faded, Scrooge had his

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eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last many

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calls Scrooge made that night when the Ghost of Christmas

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Present down among the miners, to labor in the bowels of the

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earth. And out to see among the sailors at their watch, dark and

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ghostly figures in there several stations. Much they saw and far

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they went and many places they visited, but always with a happy

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end. The spirits stood beside sick beds, and they were

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cheerful on foreign lands, and they were close at home by

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poverty, and it was rich in ALMS house, hospital and jail where

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vain man and his little brief authority had not made fast the

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door and borrowed the spirit out. The spirit left his

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blessings. It was a long night, if it was only a night. And it

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was strange to that while Scrooge remained unaltered in

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his outward form. The ghost grew older, clearly older,

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my life upon this globe is very brief, Ebenezer. It ends

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tonight. Tonight. Tonight at midnight Park. The hour is come.

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Oh, no, no, no, not yet. Not yet. There are still more things

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I wish to learn these you will learn from still another spirit. Still another

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spirit, Ebenezer

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Scrooge look about him for the ghost that had vanished and had

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found himself once more in his bed in his dressing gown and his

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nightcap. He heard the clock strike. And then he remembered

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the prediction of old Jacob Marley. And lifting up his eyes

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beheld the third spirit a solemn phantom shrouded in black draped

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and hooded coming towards him slowly and silently like a mist

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along the ground I know you you you are the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. You'll

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show me shadows of the things that have not happened but will

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happen in the time before us. That's when the Spirit ghost of

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the future I fear you more than any specter I've seen yet I know

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your purpose is to do me good as I hope to live to be another man

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from what I was lead on lead on the nights waiting faster times

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precious spirit Why have you brought me here again? Here to

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bum crutches home. But it's not the same way. Why is it so

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quiet? So very quiet here

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my son, my little son, Tiny. I loved him so

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Oh, mother, dear, you mustn't. It's almost time for father to

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be home. Don't let him see you crying

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yes Yes, ma'am. He's late tonight. He walks slower than he used to.

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And yet I've known him to walk very fast indeed. With Tiny Tim

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on his shoulder, so have I mother, but he was like to

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carry. And his father loved him so that it was no trouble. No

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trouble it. Good evening, my dear Bob.

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You're late, Bob. Yes, I'm sorry, my dear. I went to the church here today. I wish

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you could have gone with me. It it would have done your heart.

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Good to see how sweet and greener place it is. But you'll

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see it often. I promised him. Yes. I promised Tiny Tim we'd

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walk there on a Sunday. Father's here. It's God's will bob.

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I'm trying to understand it my dear. My son, my little son,

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Tiny Tim. And I loved him so

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Oh, that's cruel, cruel spirit. Can you give me one ray of hope

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that I may change all that. That Tiny Tim may live? Where are you

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taking me now? Here on a common street spirit? What is there for

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me to learn here? Who are those men?

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Lie down too much about it. Either way, I only know he's

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dead. Or indeed he doy last night I believe

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it's likely to be a very cheap funeral for upon my life. I

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don't know anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and

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volunteer. I don't mind going if a Lunch is provided.

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Come to think of it off. But I was best friend what we used to

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not do each other when we met in the street.

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Spirit tell me who is this man that died? Is there no one to

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mourn this poor creature? No one to follow him to the grave.

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Perhaps they'll give him a green grave at least like poor Tiny

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Tim. Perhaps. Spirit where are we now? Merciful heaven

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churchyard will run my grass and weeds choked up with too much

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bearing desolate, lonely, crumbling gravestone. Spirit

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before I draw nearer to that gravestone, answer me one

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question. Are these shadows of things that will be or are they

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shadows of things that may be only when you're not speak to me

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spirit? What is that grave to which you point? out writing on

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that stone? The name on the gravestone is Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh, no. No spirit. No, no, no, no, no. Hear

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me. I am not a man. I was why show me this. If I am past all

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hope, telling me that I can change these dreadful shadows

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you have shown me by an altered life. I will honor Christmas in

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my heart. I'll try to keep it all the year. I live in the past

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the present and the future. And I will not shut off the lessons

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that they teach. Tell me spirit. Oh, go on. Tell me tell me that

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I can sponge away the writing on the stone spirit. I beg you

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spirit. I beg you. Spirit I promise. I promise on my knees.

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I promise I promise. I once this hits my own bedpost, huh. I'm

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home in my own bed in my own room

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and a son a sunshiny it's clear. It's bright. No clouds. What a

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beautiful day. Oh, glorious, glorious. A boy. Oh boy. Yes,

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sir. What's today?

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What's that, sir? What day? Is it my fine fellow today? What why it's Christmas

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Day. Christmas Day, then I haven't missed it. The spirits

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have done it all in one night. All in one night. Heaven be

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praised. How was that sir? Listen, my lead. Do you know

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where the Poulter is in the next street? I should say I do. Ha an

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intelligent boy. A remarkable boy. Tell me do you know if

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they've sold the price Turkey that was hanging in the window?

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The one is biggest me. What a delightful boy. It's a pleasure talking to you. Yes, my

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buck. It's hanging there now, sir. That's wonderful. Go around

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with you. And tell them to send it to Bob Prichard and his

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family on Broad Street and mind you they're not to know who paid

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for it. Hurry hurry my lead. Here. Wait a minute. Here's half

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a crown for your trouble. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. In a Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas to you, my boy. Oh, I don't know what to do if

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it's light as a feather. I'm as happy as an angel. I Miss Mary

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as a schoolboy. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to everybody. A

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happy new year to all the world. My dear sir, how do you do?

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I beg your pardon? You sir, aren't you the gentleman who came to my office

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in regard to that charity? Why yes,

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sir. A Merry Christmas to you.

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Yes, sir. Allow me to ask your pardon, sir. And what do you want the

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goodness to accept? I prefer to whisper this.

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One Why, Lord bless me, my dear Mr. Scrooge. Are you serious?

45:44

If you please, now, not a father, unless a great many back

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payments are included in it? I assure you. Will you do me that

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favor? My dear sir, I do not know what to say to such munificence.

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Nah, don't say anything. Please come and see me. Will you come

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and see me? I will. I will, indeed.

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Thank you. I am much obliged to you. I thank you. 50 times.

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Bless you. Merry Christmas.

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The next morning Scrooge was early at his office. He went

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early for a reason. If he could only be there first and catch

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Bob Cratchit coming late. That was the thing he had set upon

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his heart. And he did it. Yes, he did. The clock struck nine.

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No Bob. Quarter past. No, Bob screwed sat with his door wide

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open that he might see him come in. And at last he came in his

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hat was off before he opened the door his Comforter to he was on

46:44

his stool in a jiffy driving away with his pen. As if you

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were trying to overtake nine o'clock. Eight and 15 and 21. Six and carry the 124 and carry the 231

46:59

eight and nine. Hello? You crush it? Yes, sir. Step this week, graduates if you please.

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Graduate. What do you mean by coming in at this time of day?

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I'm very sorry, sir. I am behind my time. You are yes, yes,

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I think you are. It's only

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once a year Mr. Scrooge. It shall not be repeated. I was

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making rather than marry yesterday. So I'll tell you what, my friend. I will not stand this sort of

47:23

thing any longer. And therefore Bob Cratchit. I'm about to raise

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your salary. Mr. Scrooge. Are you quite yourself, sir?

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No, no, thank heaven. I'm not quite myself. Merry Christmas,

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Bob. Merry Christmas, my good fellow, a Merry Christmas than I

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have given you in many a year. I shall raise your salary. And

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we'll see what we can do for Tiny Tim and the rest of your

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family. Huh? We'll discuss it this very afternoon over a

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Christmas Bowl of smoking Bishop. Bob, make up the fire,

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make it up and buy another coal scuttle. Before you dot another

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AI Bob Cratchit. Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and

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infinitely more. To Tiny Tim who did not die. He was a second

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father. He became as good a friend as good a master as good

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a man as the good old city New, or any other good old city, town

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or borough in the good old world. Some people laugh to see

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the alteration in him. But he let them laugh and little heated

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them. His Own Heart laughs mad was quite enough for him. He had

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no further intercourse with spirits but lived upon the total

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abstinence principle ever afterwards. And it was always

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said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas. Well, If any man

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alive, possessed the knowledge may that truly be said of us and

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all of us. And so as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us. Every

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one. Lady ladies and gentlemen at this point in the program,

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it's my custom as you know to thank the voice talent that's

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helping us tell our story. There will be full biographical links

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in the show notes for this episode. We meet as Paul would

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like to wish each and every one of you out there a very Merry

49:30

Christmas and a Happy New Year. And we would like to thank our

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cast for their amazing performances. Scrooge young and

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old, played by Kylie bear, Bob Cratchit and Fezziwig the caller

49:41

or played by Lee Beckett caroler and man on street were played by

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West Haas nephew Fred was Kyle Jensen. Charity collector was

49:50

Ian Knowles. Jacob Marley was Oliver Smith. The Ghost of

49:54

Christmas Past was Nicole Good night. Bella was played by Thea

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stone Bella's husband was played by Seamus Ghost of Christmas

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Present was played by Nick the rat. Mrs. Cratchit was played by

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Danielle's eye. Martha Cratchit was played by Finley Smith,

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Belinda Cratchit was played by Robin Huff. Tiny Tim was Ariana

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Cooper. And Matt on street number two Cersei Twitter. And

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last but not least, Goose boy was played by Leila meet us. And

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now, as Tiny Tim says,

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bless us, everyone