A Christmas carol . irilustrattons **Went up, to the lofty desk, * * * and tuned like fifty stomach-aches 57 *When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up . 61 While Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes. 85 In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered— flushed, but smiling proudly —with the pudding ... 91 She was what you would havecalled provoking, you know ; butsatisfactory, too 103 Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey ? , . . .119 *Smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement . . .123 Chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon th
A Christmas carol . irilustrattons **Went up, to the lofty desk, * * * and tuned like fifty stomach-aches 57 *When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up . 61 While Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes. 85 In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered— flushed, but smiling proudly —with the pudding ... 91 She was what you would havecalled provoking, you know ; butsatisfactory, too 103 Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey ? , . . .119 *Smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement . . .123 Chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the wall .127 His hand continued to shake very much . . . .149 He went to church . . .152 Will you let me in, Fred .? . 155 xn A CHRISTMAS CAROL. A CHRISTMAS CAROL STAVE ONE MARLEYS GHOST MARLEY was dead : to begin is no doubt whatever aboutthat. The register of his burialwas signed by the clergyman, the clerk,the undertaker, and the chief signed it: and Scrooges name wasgood upon Change for anything he choseto put his hand to. Old Marley was asdead as a door-nail. Mind ! 1 dont mean to say that I know, i^of my own knowledge, what there is particu-larly dead about a door-nail. I might havebeen inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nailas the deadest piece of ironmongery in thetrade. But the wisdom of our ancestors isin the simile ; and my unhallowed handsshall not disturb it, or the Country s donefor. You will therefore permit me to repeat,emphatically, that Marley was as dead as adoor-nail.
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