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You may just be them. Me:

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This Christmas villain of all time.

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a man who counts is money.

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well children star who mocks the

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sick and begrudges is most loyal

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friends. even the tiniest bit of

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happiness. Oh yes, he is the

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oh gee, A bad guys are

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right. Darth Vader, the Grinch, oh

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the more. all rolled into one

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evil lump of. A man. Of

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a just you wait this nasty

0:33

piece of work will get his

0:35

come up and said in the

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most unexpected and satisfying way. I'm

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speaking of course of

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Ebenezer Scrooge. I'm

0:45

Keith Morris and and this

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is season two of Morris

0:50

and Mysteries. Our

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story is set in the

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eighteen forties London, England. It's

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winter cold and bleak, but

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it's Christmas Eve. The warmth

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and joy of the season

1:04

of giving permeate the grave

1:06

fog of the city in

1:08

all places. But one. That.

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Tiny shriveled heart. Of.

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Ebenezer Scrooge. As

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we begin, screw just sitting in

1:19

his office barking orders that is

1:21

kind hearted clerk Bob Cratchit was

1:23

only hoping to have Christmas Day

1:25

off to spend time with his

1:27

family. Especially his

1:30

desperately ill son, Tiny

1:32

Tim. But.

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Low, Some Scrooge doesn't give

1:36

a thought to any of

1:38

that. Now Cratchit Family means

1:40

nothing to screw. And Christmas.

1:43

A passing annoyance, A waste

1:45

of valuable time. Yes,

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And meanness, Scrooge was second

1:50

denied except just possibly do

1:52

his own business partner. The.

1:55

Greedy Jacob Marley who pinch

1:57

to last penny and die

1:59

seven years before the Christmas

2:02

Eve of our story. In

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fact it's sorts of Marley.

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It began Charles Dickens a

2:09

Christmas Carol. Marley.

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Was dead. Division. Was

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there was no doubt, whatever

2:21

about that. The register of

2:24

his burial was signed by

2:26

the clergyman, a clerk, the

2:28

undertaker, the chief. more. They're

2:30

screwed. From screwed

2:32

his name was good for anything he

2:34

chose to put his hand to. Oh,

2:36

Marley was as dead as a doornail.

2:39

Scrooge. And he were partners for

2:41

by don't know how many years

2:44

screwed. was his soul executor, his

2:46

soul administrator, his soul assigned his

2:48

soul friend and his soul mourner.

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And even Scrooge was not so

2:52

dreadfully caught up by the sad

2:55

event. Scrooge.

2:57

Never painted out old Marlies

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name their it stood years

3:01

afterwards about the warehouse door.

3:04

Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people

3:06

new to the business called

3:08

screwed Scrooge and sometimes Marley

3:10

buddy answer to both names.

3:13

It was all the same

3:15

to him. Oh,

3:18

but he was a tight fisted hand to

3:20

the grindstone screws. A squeezing

3:22

wrenching, grasping, scraping clutching

3:25

covered as old center,

3:27

hard and sharpest points.

3:29

secret and self contained

3:31

in solitary is an

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oyster. The coal within

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him froze his own

3:38

features nip disappointed knows

3:40

shriveled his teeth stiffened

3:42

escape made his eyes

3:44

were is thin lips

3:47

blue. And

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spoke out shrewdly and his grading

3:51

voice. thank

3:53

you for listening to hear all

3:56

five episodes of charles dickens a

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