Identifier: christmascarol00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A Christmas carol
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Coburn, Frederick Simpson
Subjects: Christmas stories Misers
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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H Cbristmas Carol are you ? If it only puts him in the vein toleave his poor clerk fifty pounds, thats some-thing ; and 1 think 1 shook him yesterday. It was their turn to laugh now at the notion of his shaking Scrooge. But being thoroughly J^rB ffood-natured, and not much caring what ^^j they laughed at, so that they laughed at ^ any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment, and passed the bottle joyously. After tea, they had some music. For theywere a musical family, and knew what theywere about, when they sang a Glee or Catch,I can assure you : especially Topper, whocould growl away in the bass like a good one,and never swell the large veins in his fore-head, or get red in the face over it. Scroogesniece played well upon the harp ; and playedamong other tunes a simple little air (a merenothing : you might learn to whistle it in tv/ominutes), which had been familiar to the childwho fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghostof Christmas Past. Wh

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