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Right now a regime is like a letter if you are the one. Who is Charles Dickens. Well read again in Boston not the Tremont Temple at 8 o'clock on the evenings of Monday December 23rd and Tuesday December 24 1867. A Christmas Carol in for Steve
St. one lot he's got. Molly would get to begin with there is no doubt whatever about that. The registar video was signed by the clergyman the clock the undertaker and the chief mourner screwed signed and Scrooge name was brought up on trade for anything he joined to put his hand up. Oh not a word. Dead as a doornail. SCROOGE of course you get to be otherwise Scrooge and he was nice but I don't know how many Scrooge watches show executive pay several administrator or assign his cell residuary legatee. He has several friends and he's no more a Scrooge never painted out old Molly's name have bought their tickets. Yes I have to work above the warehouse dog screwed
Genma was known as Scrooge and not I. Sometimes people get into the business called Scrooge Scrooge and sometimes mock the answer debate named it was all the same to him. Got the water shut tight fisted hand after Grimes town was screwed by squeezing the wrenching grasping scraping clutching the tasks of sin not externally he didn't code had little influence on him. All warmth cold water no good. Surely no wind that blew was a bit taller than he you know falling snow was not intent upon its purpose you know petting the rain that's open to entreaty. Nobody of us stopped him on this be disabled gladsome looks my dear Scrooge how oh when will you come to see me. By truck did Scrooge pass which is the very thing he liked
and that pathways of life warning all human sympathy to keep its distance was about that knowing one's called nuts to Scrooge. Once upon a time all the good days in the year and Christmas he owed Scrooge kept busy counting house it was a cold bleak biting foggy day and the city clocks had only just gone three but it was quite dark already. The daughters who just counting I was was open and he may keep his eye upon his clock when a dismal little center of the armed a sort of tank was copying letters. Scrooge and a very small fire but the clock fire was so much smaller that it looked like one. But he couldn't remember a friendship for Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room and so surely as the clock came in the shop girl the master predicted them to grab an SSRI
upon him top pot full are the clock and put on his confidant and tried to warn means up at the candle in which order not being a man of strong imagination he failed. A merry Christmas Uncle God save you. Cried a cheerful voice. It was a voice of Scrooge's nephew who came upon himself quickly that this was the first intimation Scrooge had of his approach. Bah said Scrooge humbug Christmas humbug uncle I'm sure you don't mean that I go out upon Merry Christmas. If I had my will every idiot to bewitch about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with the stone putting and buried with a stake of holly to raise hockey should gold. Nephew keep Christmas in your own way let me keep it in mind keep it but you don't keep it. Let me leave it alone and much good it may go you.
Much good it is evident you know what I have always thought of Christmas time when it's come round has our good time a kind forgiving charitable pleasant time the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seen about one consent to open their shut up hearts freely and to think of people to love them in a kindly way. Therefore I'm told that one has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket. I believe it has done me good and will do me good and I say God bless it. The clock in the tank involuntarily applauded. They may hear another sound from you said Scrooge and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. And if you're like a powerful speaker I wonder you don't go into Parliament. Don't be angry don't go come dine with us tomorrow. Scrope said he would keep him here and he did he went the whole length of the expression and said he would see him in that experiment a first but why I cried Scrooge's nephew.
Why did you get married because I fell in love Big Cartel fairly large proud Scrooge as if that were the only thing in the world more ridiculous and I met a Christmas card that I know well I've done my best times sorry with all my heart to find you so resolute that I've made the trial in homage of Christmas and I will keep my Christmas humor to the last so a Merry Christmas I'll go right after on our own and I have you know your god tough time now his nephew left the room without and I have been angry but I did not withstanding. That blanks they are for shutting up the counting house arrived with a nearly screwed dismounting from his stool tacitly admitted the fact that the expectant clock in the tank instantly snuffed out his candle and put on his hat you know I want all day to morrow I suppose. If Quite convenient sir it's not convenient and not fast. If I was just up half a crown for me I wager you'd think yourself my dear Hughes I'll be bound. Yes sir.
And yet you never take me ill used when I pay a day's wages for I now work. It's only once a yes or a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty fifth of December. But I suppose I must have the whole day be here an hour later next Monday. But Clark promised that he would. And Scrooge walked out with a growl. The office was closed in a twinkling and the clock with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waistcoat he goes no great coat went down I slide at the end of a lane of boys twenty times in honor of his being Christmas Eve and then ran home as hard as he could out to play at blind man's buff. Screwed took Here's melancholy going out in his usual melancholy cavern and having begun Io's evening with his banker's book when he lived in a bloom a set of rooms up a lowering pile of buildings which had once belonged to his deceased
partner. Nobody lived in it but screwed to the other rooms being all let out as offices. Now it is a fact that there was nothing at all particular about them knocking on the door of this house except that it was very large also that Scrooge had seen it night and morning to hear during his entire residence in that place also that Scrooge had as little of what might be called a fancy about him as any man in the city of London and yet Scrooge. Have each a key in the lock of the doss saw in the knocker without its undergoing any intermediate process of change not a narcotic Molly's face. Speak with it just like about you like a bad lobster in a dark cellar it was not angry off erasures but it looked at screw just Molly used to look it ghostly spectacles tightened up upon its ghostly heart.
As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon it was a knockout game he said. Poke them and there are. The sound raised from the house I found out I have Ray room above in every cask and wine much on sellers below appeared to have a separate piece of cake I was always shown. Scrooge was not a man not a frightened by echoes. If the dog he walked across the hallway up the stairs slowly to cramming his candle as he went up screwed you and not caring a button but it's being darker darkness is cheap and Scrooge like it but before a shot is heavy dog it walked to his rooms to see that all was right. He had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that sitting at home. Bedroom lumber room as it should be. Nobody under the table. Nobody under the shelf. A small fire in the grate in a saucepan of grill up on a cob. Nobody under the bed. You have it in the closet.
Nobody in his dressing gown which was hanging up in a suspicious had to shoot against a wall. Quite satisfied he closed his door and luck to every shelf in. Double OT game itself which was not his usual custom thus secured against surprise he took it off his crew that put on his dressing gown and slippers and nightcap and sat down before a very low fi offer to take his group. As he threw his head back in the chair his arms happened to rest upon a bed and disused which happened to have hung in the room and communicated for some purpose now forgotten but that chamber in the highest story of the building. It was with great astonishment Dennis Rader explicable bred that as he looked he saw all this that would be kinda sweet. It swung until it rang so not right to know how to loudly and showed it
our way back to my house. Yes was upset by our climate here. Nor is the dollar mellow as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over their cocks in the wine merchant's dollar. And heard the noise much rug on the floors below. Then coming up the stairs then coming straight toward his daughter. It came on through with a heavy door and I suspect I. Passed into the room. Therefore if I take the very same model people take their usual Westcott tights and book his body was transparent so that Scrooge observing him and looking through his West could see the two buttons on his coat behind him. Scrooge had often heard it said that Molly had no bowels but he never believed you can
tell. Oh did he believe it even though he looked the phantom through and through and felt his chilling cold eyes on him he was still incredulous. An hour said Scrooge coughed bacon. Oh yeah no doubt about it. When I was in life I want your money. Can you sit down. I can do it again. The ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace as if it but like you too if you don't believe in me I don't buy into your god because I have fixed and made a slight disorder that makes them sheeps. You might
be an undigested beef lot of mustard a crumb of tea get a break and take a lot of gravy than of grave. There's not much in the habit of cracking jokes. The truth is that he tried to be smart as a means of keeping down his heart but how much greater was his heart when the fact I'm taking off the bandage around your head its lower jaw dropped down upon his breast. Dreadful apparition Why do you trouble me. Why do spirits walk the earth and why do you come to me. It is required of every American that the spirit within him. You should walk over all among his fellow man and travel far and if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to do so. Good day. I've got a little motive for me to care not to rest I care not to linger out on my own life in my life my spirit never to be on the narrow
limits of money changing. And before she ever hears again travelling all back time you travel fast you might have gotten over a great deal you could ground in seven years. Hard man a blind man. Do you not know that any Christian spirit with you kindly will find this mortal life too shallow for you yet I like you. It was like. But you what are we said good man you've been good for mankind was my business the common welfare was my business charter to say forbearance benevolence where all our business. Hear me my time is wrong or I will but don't be hard on
me. Don't beat up please. I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet that charm and hope of escaping life a chance in hope. Oh my procured you were always a good friend to me. You will be haunted by the chase and help you mention Jacob I think I'd rather not without you cannot hope to tread and expect a for tomorrow and expect the second on the next night at the same hour upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look. But for your sake you remember what you know. More back from him and take every step he took the
window raised its open a little so that when the apparition reached it it was wide open. Scrooge closed the window and examined the door by which to give today. It was double locked as he had locked it with his own hands and the bell is what undisturbed. Scrooge tried to say hombre but stopped at the first symbol and B from the emotion that he had undergone all his glimpse of the invisible world. Much in need of repair he went straight to bed without him dressing and fell asleep on the instant. Strive to the first of the three spirits I'm screwed you're welcome it was so dark that looking out of bed he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque wall of his chamber until suddenly the church clock told a deep hollow melancholy
one. Lights flashed up in the room in an instant and the curtains of his bed were drawn aside by a strange beggar like a child. Yet not so like a child as like an old man viewed through some supernatural medium which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view and being diminished to a child's proportion. How you get it. Whose coming was foretold of me I am. Who and what are you. I am the ghost of Christmas past. Long past. You know. Your part the things that you will see with me are shadows of the things that have been and they will have new consciousness off grooves made to enquire what business brought him here. Your welfare. Rise and walk with me. He rose but finding that the Spirit made towards a window class
disrobe in supplication. Oh I am mortal I am liable to fall then but a touch of my hand. There said the spirit laying it upon his heart and you shall be up to morrow or the next. As the words were spoken they passed through the wall and stood in the visitors thought of it as a city it was made plain by the dressing of the shops are here too. It was Christmas time. The ghost stopped at a certain warehouse dog and I asked Scrooge if he knew it. No age why he was a preacher. They went in at the sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig sitting behind such a high desk that had been too we just thought he must have knocked his head against the ceiling. Scrooge cried in great excitement Why bless my heart it's got a library again. Oh Rich face the rig laid down his pen and looked up at the clock
which pointed to they are seven. He rubbed his hands and adjusted his Cap Haitien It's a West good loft all over himself from his shoes to his organ of benevolence John called I know you're not comfortable or in marriage that jovial voice your oh of revenue growth do you think. A living. But now the young man came briskly and accompanied by his government. We're going to be a show I said you go. I don't fell over and just blessed me. Yes there she was really much attached to me it was deep deep there you know no borders. No more work tonight. Christmas do you get Christmas every day good. Let's help lift up the people and I'm going to get up. There you know to relieve me of that. But let's hope so the room clear. There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared our way off and away we know as
everybody on it was done in a minute. Every move of it was packed off as if it had been dismissed from public life for evermore. The floor was swept in water and the lamps were trimmed. Fuel was heaped upon the fire and the warehouse was as snug and warm and dry and bright a ball room as you would desire to see and winter's night in came a fish that with a music book and went up to the left desk and made an orchestra and two like Fifties stomach aches. In came Mrs.. Who on vas substantial smile. In came the three Missy's face beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers the house they broke in came all the young men and women employed in the business in came the housemaid and cousin the baker in came the cook with us from this particular friend the milkman. They all came anyhow and anyhow I Have they went
to a couple of clubs and pop back again the same the other way down the middle and up but round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping. Old Top couple always turning up in the wrong place. New top couple starting off again as soon as they got there. All top couples at last and not a bottom one to help them. When this result was brought about as a big slap a chance to stop and cried out. Well done and the fiddler plunged his hot face in one pocket. Porter especially provided that there were more dancers and how about that great piece of code roast and was a great piece of cold boiled and there were means pies and plenty of beer. But the great effect of the evening came the roast and boiled and the fiddler. Struck up Sir Roger de Coverley then I would add Todai It's been a top couple if piece of work cut out for them three or four and twenty pale people
who were thought to be people who bought darts and had no notion of walking back after they had been twice as many for I was oh what a match for them. And so what made you as to how. Every sense of the time a positive light appeared to issue from fishy rich carbs they found in every part of the dance and you could not predict it at any given time what would become of the next then gone all through the dance that time out of town your corkscrew thread the needle and back again to your face you cut me that he appeared the week with the sling. When the clock struck eleven this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Pansey took their stations were not out of the dollar and shaking hands with every person individually as he went out. Wish came amid a
Christmas when everybody had retired but that to write a name to them and thus the chair for voices died away and the lads were left to their beds which were under a counter in the back shop. There goes a small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude he has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money three or four perhaps. He steps over all this praise. It isn't that said Scrooge heated by the remark and speaking unconsciously like a former not his latter myself decent that spirit he has the power to render us happy or unhappy to make our sap a slight or burdensome a pleasure or toil. She that his power lies in words and looks in things so light and insignificant that it is impossible to end and come to him up what then. The happiness she gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. He felt this bitch collapse and stop. What's the matter. Nothing particular.
Something like no no. I should like to have been able to say a word or two to my class just now that's all. My time grows short to observe this pretty quick. It was not addressed to screw it up to anyone and we could see that it produced an immediate effect. Or again he saw himself. He was older now the man in the prime of life. He was not alone but sat by the side of a young guy in a dark dress and whose heart was there with tears. It matters little she said softly to scoot his former self to you. Very little I suppose. Another Idol has displaced me and if it can comfort you in time to come as I would have tried to do I have no just cause to grieve what I go has just pace to let go of the one and so I release you with love for the heart for the love of him you once but
spend it to remove me from this place. I told you these were shadows of things that have been said those that they are what they are. Do not blame me. Scrooge exclaimed I cannot bear to leave you may take me back. Oh me now I would long. As he struggled with the spirit of it all and overcome every just put up. You know that really after reading to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep. Cave 3 The second thing that really work in his own bedroom. There is no doubt about that. But it and his own adjoining sitting room into which he shuffled in his step was attracted by a great light and undergone a surprising transformation.
The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green that it looked a perfect grill heaped upon the floor to form a kind of throne. What turkeys and geese game wrong. Great joints of meat sucking pigs laundries of sausages meats pies plum puddings barrels of oil just as red hot Jeff not cherry cheeked depos juicy oranges luscious past immense pred. and great Those are piped in easy state on this road. Yeah Saturday giant glorious Jessie. Who all are glowing top change shape not unlike panties on and who really get high after shit like I'm Scrooge. It's because people are. Calm even coming in and know me better now than I am the ghost of Christmas Present. Look up on me. Have you never seen the like of me before all. Yes.
Have you never walked forth with my earlier brothers in my family. I'm afraid I have not had many brothers more than eighteen hundred picture Mendez family to provide for our speed it got me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion and I learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight if you have aught to teach me let me profit by touch my rough road it shows it and held it fast. The room in all its contents vanished instantly and they stood in the city streets upon a snowy Christmas morning. Scrooge and the ghost asked on invisible straight to Scrooge his clocks and on the threshold but before this and stop to bless Bob Cratchit spoiling with the spring brings all his talk. Think of that. Bob had but fifteen bob a week in jail. He pocketed on Saturday for fifteen copies of his Christian name and yet thank God for that basement blessed tears
fall room. Then Rose Mrs. Cratchit Pratchett's wife pressed output poorly in a question turned down but braving rivers which are cheap and naked with a sixpence and she a cloth assisted by Bill in the second of our daughter's also braving ribbons while Master Peter tragic but the end of the tape was getting the corners really monstrous should call out on private property conferred upon his son and heir in honor of the day and it was met with and two smaller pressures by and GAO came tearing in screaming that outside the baker's they'd smell the goose and no need for their dough and basking in like Furious thought source. I'm me and these young Pratchett's danced about the table and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies Well I own he blew the fire out and tell us slow potatoes bubbling up knocked loudly at the saucepan and lived to be let out and people but I
was caught your precious father said Mrs. Cratchit and your brother time you came in Moscow on just like last Christmas di di half an hour. Yes Martha mother said the girl appearing as she's better. Here is Martin I cried the two young brothers such as. Why bless your heart alive madame. I'm going to take you outside Mrs. Prichard kitchen a dozen times and taking off her shawl and bonnet. Their father coming cried the two young graduates who whatever very much How did not hide and in came little Bob the father. Whether at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the frames hanging down before him and his thread that clothes donned up one brush to look seasonable and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. A lot of tiny people or a little touch and its limbs were supportive. I am well aware my mother cried Bob Cratchit looking round and not coming said Mrs. Cratchit not coming said
Bob with a sudden declension of a high spirit. But he had been too much blood. Also all the way from church and had come home rampant not coming on Christmas Day. Oh not I didn't like to see him disappointed if ever me and Joe. So she came out prematurely from behind the closet door and ran into his arms while the two young graduates also tiny came and bore him up to the last house that he might hear the pussy eating in the car that he came to a rally there today and but had his daughter content. That's good. Me coming did he have the people talking because he was a cripple. Remember on Christmas Day. What made the lame walk. And blind man seen Bob's voice was tremulous when he told him this untrammelled mo money said Tiny
Tim was growing struck and hockey. Is active little crutch and upon the thought that even Tiny Tim before another one was escorted by a brother and sister at the bar and Master Peter in the ubiquitous young Pratchett's went to fetch the goose with which they soon returned and high procession Mrs. Cratchit made the baby ready beforehand in a little soft M.P. given that it was within this bill and thus we conduct the Applesoft plates. Bob took Tiny Tim. And the two young Pratchett said she has forever. Been mounting guard upon their posts cram spoke into them for girls before their turn came at last the dishes were set on and Grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless Paul
while Mrs. Cratchit looking slowly all along a carving knife had just plunged in the breast and Ange and grinned no longer expected. Gosh I was stuffing issue for us one night. Rows are all around the board and even tiny. I'm excited for the two young Pratchett speak on the table with the handle of his knife and feebly cried. There never was a shop job Guv Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a tendency in flavor size and cheap case where the themes of universal admiration with apple sauce and mashed potatoes. It was a sufficient enough for the whole family. Indeed as Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight surveying one small item of bone upon the dish they had been at it all and yet every one had had enough and the youngest graduates in particular were steep
to the eyebrows. But now the plates being changed from as Bill and I missed Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone. Too nervous to bear witnesses to take the putting up and bring it in. Suppose it should not be done and I suppose it should break in turning up. Supposing somebody had got over the back wall of the backyard and still in it. Why they were married with a goose a supposition at which two young Pratchett's became livid all sorts of horrors. I suppose I know a great deal of keep the body up. I smell like a washing day. There was a spell like an eating house and the pastrycook's next door to each other with a long rest next daughter that that was the point in half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered flushed but smiling proudly with the pudding like ice pick those cannon balls so hard and firm blazing in half of half a quarter of ignited Ben day and good night with Christmas holiday
stuck into the top four now warm enough for putting Bob Cratchit said Dan calmly too that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit seems to have Natty. This is Gretchen. Now the wait was off. Mind she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour everybody had something to say about it but nobody sad or thought it was at all a small footing for a large family and a graduate would have blush to hint at such a thing. Then all the graduate family drew around the hearth and what Bob Cratchit called a circle. Anyhow one ended Bob Cratchit elbow to the family display of glass two tumblers and a custard cup without a head and these have hops stuff from the job. However as well as goblets would have done and Bob served it out with beaming looks by the chest not trying to fire a spotted and crackled noisily.
Then Bob proposed a Merry Christmas to you know you my dear as God bless us with all the family. God bless us every one said to him. The last of all he sat very close to his father's side to produce the construe. Bob held his withered hand in his as if he loved the child and wished to keep him by his side and dreaded that he might be taken from him. There was nothing of high mark in there. They were not a handsome family they were not well dressed. Their shoes were far from being waterproof that those were scanty but they were happy really pleased with one another and contented with the time and when they feed and look happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit talked of parting.
Scrooge had his eye upon them especially on a tiny team until the game was a great surprise to Scrooge as this teen vanished to hear a hearty laugh it was a much greater surprise just grew to recognize it as his own nephew and if I knew I was ever in a bright dry gleaming room with a spirit standing smiling by his side and looking at that same nephew he said that Christmas was I'm Bobby I lived cried Scrooge's nephew even leave you. More shaped by him Fred said. Bless these women they never do anything by hogs they're always and it was very pretty x a pretty simple surprise like looking capital face a right little mouth that seemed made to be kissed and no doubt it was all kinds of good little dots about it. She melted into a.
Pair of eyes you ever saw another creature all together she was what you would have called satisfactory to perfect a satisfactory comical our fellows at school just not here. However those of us by himself always here he takes you to dislike us and he won't come and dine with us. What's the consequence. Well he don't lose much of a dinner. Indeed I think it was a very good dinner interrupted. Everybody else said the same. Well I'm very glad to hear it said Scrooge nephew because I haven't any great faith in these young housekeepers I want your site up. Top I clearly had here I am one of screwed his niece's sisters thought he answered that a bachelor was a bitchy Coston who had no right to express an opinion on the subject. Where dad Scrooge is niece's sister the plump one with the
ladies talk a lot of sht after they had some music but they were they are musical family but they did not develop the entire evening to music. After a while it waited for effect and then there was a game of blind man's buff. Now I no more believe top I was really blinded and I believe he had eyes in his book because that way he went after the plump sister in the least talk it was an outrage to the credulity of human nature knocking down the fire irons tumbling over chairs bumping against the piano smothering himself on the curtains. Wherever she went they had when he he always knew where the pump system was he wouldn't catch anybody else. If you'd fallen against him or some of them did and stood there he would have made a feint at endeavoring to see here which would have been an affront to your understanding and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the pump system.
Oh said Scrooge Here's a new game. One half hour spirit only one. It was a game called yes and no where Scrooge's nephew had to think of something and the rest must find out what he only answering to that question is yes or no is the case with the fire of questionings to which he was exposed elicited from him. He was thinking of an animal a live animal rather a disagreeable animal a savage animal an animal that growled and granted sometimes and talk sometimes and lived in London and walked about the streets and wasn't made a show of and wasn't led by anybody and didn't live in a menagerie and was never killed in a market and was not a horse I don't want to go out I got a dog or a pig or a cat or a bat at every new question put to him. This nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter and was so inexpressibly that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and
damn that last the plump sister cried out Oh I found it. Oh I know it is Fred. I know I want to watch it. Dr Fred it's your uncle's. For its inception and there was admiration was they your madness or sentiment so there was some object in that the reply. Is it bad to have been Yash uncle's uprooted had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart that he would have drank to the unconscious company in an in an audible speech. But the whole scene passed out in the breath of the last words spoken by his nephew and he understood it when again upon their problems much they saw and far they went and many homes they visited but always with a happy ending. The spirit stood beside sick beds and they were charitable by struggling men and they were patient in their greater by poverty and it was rich you know alms
house hospital in jail in miseries every refuge where a vain manuscript of grief or thought or they had not made fast the door and bark to spit it out. He left his blessing and talked screwed his precepts. Suddenly as they stood together in open place the bell struck twelve. Scrooge looked about him for the ghost and saw him almost as a last stroke ceased to vibrate. He remembered the prediction of the road take up Molly and lifting up his eyes beheld a solemn phantom. You're a damned good coming like I mean US alarm the grown ups here. Oh hey fought the last of the spears.
The phantom gravely silently approach. It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head its face its form and left nothing of it is of little save one stretched you know maw of the Spit it neither spoke. No. Am I in the presence of the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Ghost of the future I fear you are more than any specter I have seen. But as I know your purpose to do me is to do me good and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was I am prepared to bear your company and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me. It gave him no reply. The hand was pointed straight before them. Lead on. Lead on the night is waning fast and it is precious time to me I know leave a dormant spirit they scarcely seem to enter the city for the city
rather seem to spring up about them. And there they were in hockey. One change amid the merchants. The Spirit stopped beside a little not a business man and observing that the hand pointed to them Scrooge advanced and listened to their talk nearer to the great at math. I don't know much about it other than I did. When he died but another last night I believe. Why what was the matter with him I saw he'd never die. God knows the first really all I'm done with this man a red faced gentleman. Up a bit better yet a bit. But. That. It happened 20 steps the seen the train and now he
almost touched the barrel I'm Curt in bed a light rising in the outer air. They'll straight up on this and on it and watch on way and cared for was the body of this plant. I'm no spirit. Let me see some tenderness connected with all this dark chamber spirit will be forever present to me to go to conduct you came to poor Bob Cratchit house the dwelling he had visited before and found the mother of the children seated around the fire. Quiet very quiet the noisy little crutch it's worse still a statute in one corner and sat looking up at Peter at a book before him. The mother and her daughters were engaged in needlework. But surely he will fit it. And he took the child and
set him in the midst of them. Scrooge heard those words. He had not dreamed them. The more I must have read them out as he crossed the threshold. Why did he not go. The mother laid her work on the table and put her hand up to her face the color. That's when you know you should put their bets on Iowa again. It makes them week by candlelight and I wouldn't show weak eyes to a father when he comes home for the world. It must be near his time pastor brother Peter answered shutting up the book but I think he's walked a little slower than he used in the last few evenings mother. I have known him to walk with. I've known him to walk with Tiny Tim but he showed up very fast indeed. It's not that I cried Peter but he was very light to carry and his
father loved him so it was no trouble no trouble. And there is your father at the dog. She hurried up to meet him in Little Bob and his comforter I got need of it. Poor fellow came in. Tea was ready for him on the hob and they all tried who should help him to it. Then the two young Pratchett's got upon his knees and child in the chicken cage his face as if they said don't mind father don't be greedy about was very cheerful with him then and spoke pleasantly to all of them and he looked at the work up on the table and praised the industry and speed of Mrs. Cratchit in the go it would be done long before Sunday he said Sunday that you went there to day then Robert. Yes my dear returned Robert I wish you could have gone you would have done you good to see how green a place it is. But you will see it often I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday.
I did talk to him the talk he broke down all at once he couldn't help it if he could have helped it he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were speck dark said Scrooge. Something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. I know it but I know not how. Tell me what man that was with a covered face whom we saw lying dead. The ghost of Christmas Yet to Come conveyed him to what does in the wretched ruin US church. The spirit stood among the graves and pointed down to one. Before I draw nearer to that down under which you point out answer me one question ghost. Are these the shadows of things that will be or are they shadows of the things that may be still the ghost pointed down to the grave by which you can do it. Men's courses will foreshadow certain aims to which your posts have a duty and they must leave. But if the course should be departed from the INS will change so you just
lost touch with what you show me that it was a movable ever so screwed crept towards it trembling as he went and following the finger. Read up on the stone of the neglected grave. Oh it was cruel. But I am that man went up on the bed and already no spirit or no spirit hear me I am not the man I was I will not be the man I would have been but for the seed of course. Why show me this if I am past all hope. Assure me that I yet may change the shadows you have shown me by my altered life. I will honor Christmas with my heart and try to keep it all that I will live in the past and present and the future of the spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach but would tell me I'm a sponge away the writing on this wretched stone holding
up his hands in one last prayer to have his fate reversed he saw an alteration in the Phantom's board and rest it shrunk collapsed and dwindled down to a bedpost. Yes and the bed post which each of the big pushes around the room was his own best and happiest of all that time that for him was to make amends. He was checked in his private parts by the churches ringing out the last years he had ever had running to the window he opened it and put out his head. No fog no mist no night clear bright golden day. What's today cried Scrooge calling down going to a boy on Sunday clothes who perhaps would like to look about him that way. What's today my foreign VERY NEW DAY. Why Christmas Day. Christmas Day I haven't missed it. How do I know my fine fellow. Oh yeah you know the poet arose in the
next street but one at the corner I should have by deed and intelligent boy remarkable like you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that they're saying up there or not the little prize turkey the big one what they were meant to be gives me what I don't like for a boy it's a pleasure to talk with him yes my pocket. It's hanging there now. He's you know invited walk I explain that I know I mean I'm just going by it and tell him to bring it here that I mean give them the direction we need to take it come back to that man. I'll give you a shilling come back here with him in less than five minutes I'll give you half a crown. The boy was off like a shot. I said to Bob Cratchit C-Sharp know who sends it. It's twice the size of Tiny Tim. Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending it up bobs will be the hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one but a right to tedium somehow and went downstairs to open the street door ready for the coming of the photos man. It was our techie that he that he never could have
stood up on his legs he would have snapped him up short in a minute like sticks of sealing wax screwed dressed himself all in his best and at last got out on the streets the people were by this time pouring forth as he had seen them with the ghost of Christmas present and walking with his hands behind him. Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile he looked so irresistible a peasant in a word of three or four good human fellows said Good Morning Star Merry Christmas to you and Scrooge said afterwards that all the blithe sounds he ever had it was weather like this ten years here in the afternoon. He turned his steps toward his nephew's house. He had passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock but he made a dash and did it. Is your master at home my dad. Said Scrooge to the girl. Nice girl. Yes Sarah Where do you see me love. Easy the dining room sound on with a mistress. Oh he knows me said Scrooge or this hand already on the dining room lock. I'll go in here Fred.
Well bless my soul. Cried Fred who was that if I were you I'd go screw driver come to dinner when you let me in Fred left him here and it's a mercy he didn't take his arm off. He was at home in five minutes nothing could be hopping out his nice look just the same so did topple over and he came in so did the sister when she came in. So did every one when they came in a wonderful party wonderful games wonderful unanimity wonderful happiness that he was early at the office next morning. Oh yes I know there are. If you could only be there first and catch Bob Cratchit coming late. That was I think he checked his heart upon and he did it. The clock struck nine now about a quarter past. You know Bob Bob was a full 80 minutes and a half guy in his time. Scrooge sat with his door wide open that he could see him coming to the tank. Bob's hat was off before you open the door his comforter to his army stool in a jiffy driving away with his pen as if you were trying to overtake nine o'clock. Oh private Scrooge in his accustomed voice as
near as he could fade. And what do you mean by coming here at this time of day. I'm very sorry so I am behind my time you are yes I think you are. Step this way if you please. It's only once a year so I shall not be repeated I was making rather midday yesterday. Now I'll tell you what my friend I'm not going to stand for this sort of thing and I'm not and that's all of Scrooge continued leaping from his stool and giving Bob such a dig in the West Bank that he staggered back into the tank again and therefore are not allowed to raise your salary. Bob trembled and got a little nearer the ruler. A merry Christmas Bob said Scrooge with an A.M. cannot be mistaken as he clapped him on the back. I'm not a Christmas I'm not a I one Bob my good fellow and I've given you for many a year I will raise your salary and endeavor to assist your struggling family. We will discuss your affairs this afternoon. That afternoon over at Christmas the little smoking Bishop Bob. Make up the files and by your second tell that's all
you'll doctor know that I Bob Cratchit Scrooge was better than it was. He did it all and infinitely more than just trying to tell him that we did not die he was a second father. He became as good a friend as going to my star and as good a man and I was that good city or any other good dose of Tylenol. But all in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him but he don't hardly live and that was quite enough for him. He had no further into Cos with spirit but lived in that respect upon the total abstinence principle ever afterward and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas Well if any man alive possessed the knowledge may that be truly said of us and all of
us. And so as Tiny Tim observed God bless us everyone. This program was a video tape production of WGBH TV Boston.
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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