" "Harry, ifif it's the money, maybe I could manage" "Yesand scrimp and save and scrooge along without a laundress another four years, and do his washing and" "Icould fix the money part, Harryeasy.

Yes, seh, Ah haf to scrooge

The theme is not so much the duty of service as the joy of service, the happiness that we feel in making others happy; and the four carols mark the four stages in the conversion of Scrooge from solitary selfishness to social good will.

Scrooge is, of course, the central character.

Scrooge signed it.

Scrooge knew he was dead?

Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley.

Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley.

Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge, how are you?

No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.

It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation Scrooge had of his approach.

It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation Scrooge had of his approach.

"Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?" "Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years.

The building was old enough now, and dreary enough; for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.

As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon, it was a knocker again.

Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes.

Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for its being very dark.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Bob's hard employer, Mr. Scrooge, and one for old and for young, for sick and for well, for Father Christmas and for Father Crachit and for all the little Crachits;for everyone everywhere who had heard the holiday bells, there was a toast given.

Whether the turkey which Scrooge gave to Bob Cratchit had experienced a lovelier or more melancholy career than that of less attractive turkeys is a subject upon which I cannot even conjecture.

But that Scrooge was better for giving the turkey and Cratchit happier for getting it I know as two facts, as I know that I have two feet.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Scrooge and the Cratchits and I are, as I have said, all in one boat; the turkey and I are, to say the most of it, ships that pass in the night, and greet each other in passing.

But Dickens was narrower than Cobbett, not by any fault of his own, but because in the intervening epoch of the triumph of Scrooge and Gradgrind the link with our Christian past had been lost, save in the single matter of Christmas, which Dickens rescued romantically and by a hair's-breadth escape.

Mr. Scrooge; a dramatic fantasy after Charles Dickens' A Christmas <pb id='264.png' /> carol.