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Is he the bad one?
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Very bad.
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And are there ghosts?
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What are the people
in the picture?
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They're in prison.
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They look sad.
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Say we're nearly ready.
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Ghosts, you say?
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Are you quite certain
you won't be too...
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frightened!
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No, Father.
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Don't be silly.
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It's a nice story.
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It's only Marley
who's slightly unpleasant...
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and he's soon gone.
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Oh, Marley was dead
to begin with.
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There is no doubt
whatever about that.
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Old Marley was dead
as a door-nail.
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Did Scrooge know Marley
was dead?
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Of course he did!
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Scrooge and Marley had been
partners for...
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I don't know how long.
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He was his sole executor,
his sole mourner.
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And even Scrooge was not so
desperately cut up
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about the sad event.
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There is no doubt about that.
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This must be clearly understood
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or nothing good
can come of this story
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that I am about to relate.
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Oh, but Scrooge
was a tight-fisted hand
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at the grindstone.
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Scrooge!
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A squeezing, wrenching, grasping
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scraping, clutching,
covetous old sinner!
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Hard and sharp as flint
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from which no steel had ever
struck out generous fire.
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Secret, and self-contained
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and solitary as an oyster.
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Once upon a time
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of all the good days
in the year, on Christmas Eve
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old Scrooge sat busy
in his counting house.
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It was cold, bleak,
biting weather.
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The door of Scrooge's
counting house was open
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that he might
keep his eye upon his clerk
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who, in a dismal little
cell beyond
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was copying letters.
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Scrooge had a very small fire.
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The clerk tried to warm himself
at the candle
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in which effort, not being a man
of strong imagination
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he failed.
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A merry Christmas, Uncle!
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Cried a cheerful voice.
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God save you!
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It was the voice
of his nephew, Fred
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who came upon him so quickly
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that this was the first
intimation he had
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of his approach.
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Bah, humbug!
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Christmas a humbug, Uncle?
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You don't mean that, I'm sure.
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I do.
What right have you to be merry?
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You're poor enough.
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Come then, what right
have you to be dismal?
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What reason have you
to be morose?
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You're rich enough.
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Bah, humbug!
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Don't be cross, Uncle!
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What else can I be when I live
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in such a world of fools
as this?
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What's Christmas time to you
but a time
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for paying bills without money?
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A time for finding yourself
a year older
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but not an hour richer.
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If I could work my will
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every idiot who goes about
with "Merry Christmas"
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on his lips should be boiled
with his own pudding
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and buried with a stake
of holly through his heart.
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Uncle!
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I have always thought of
Christmas time as a good time.
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A kind, forgiving,
charitable, pleasant time.
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The only time I know of
in the long calendar of the year
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when men and women
seem by one consent
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to open their shut-up
hearts freely
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and to think of people
below them
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as if they really were
fellow passengers to the grave
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and not another race
of creatures
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bound on other journeys.
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And therefore, Uncle
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though it has never put a scrap
of gold or silver in my pocket.
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I believe that it has
done me good
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and will do me good
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and I say, God bless it!
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The clerk
involuntarily applauded
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becoming immediately
sensible of the impropriety.
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Let me hear
another sound from you
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and you'll keep your Christmas
by losing your situation.
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Don't be angry, Uncle.
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Come! Dine with us tomorrow.
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Thank you, but no.
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But why? Why?
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Why did you get married?
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Because I fell in love.
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Because you fell in love!
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Good afternoon.
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I want nothing from you,
I ask nothing of you.
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Why cannot we be friends?
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Good afternoon.
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I am sorry, with all my heart
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to find you so resolute.
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We have never had any quarrel
to which I have been a party.
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But I have made the trial
in homage to Christmas
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and I'll keep my Christmas
honour to the last.
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So a merry Christmas, Uncle!
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- Happy New Year!
- Good afternoon.
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Good afternoon.
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His nephew left
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without an angry word,
notwithstanding.
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He stopped at the outer door
to bestow the greetings
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of the season on the clerk,
who, cold as he was
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was warmer than Scrooge
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for he returned them cordially.
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There's another fellow, my clerk
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with 15 shillings a week,
and a wife and family
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talking about a merry Christmas.
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I'll retire to a madhouse.
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He'll want all day tomorrow,
I suppose.
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If quite convenient, sir.
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It's not convenient,
and it's not fair.
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If I was to
stop half-a-crown for it
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you'd think yourself ill-used,
I'll be bound?
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You don't think me ill-used,
when I pay a day's wages
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for no work.
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It is only once a year, sir.
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A poor excuse
for picking a man's pocket
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every 25th of December!
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But I suppose
you must have the whole day.
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Be here all the earlier
next morning.
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The clerk promised that he would
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and Scrooge walked out
with a growl.
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The office was closed
in a twinkling
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and the clerk ran home
to Camden Town
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as hard as he could pelt,
to play at blind man 's-buff.
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As Scrooge left
his counting house
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he was approached
by two gentlemen
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who had been on their way
to visit him.
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Scrooge and Marley's, I believe.
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Have I the pleasure of
addressing Mr Scrooge
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- or Mr Marley?
- Mr Marley has been dead
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these seven years.
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He died seven years ago,
this very night.
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We have no doubt his
liberality is well represented
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by his surviving partner.
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Good afternoon.
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At this festive season
of the year
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it is more than usually
desirable that we should
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make some slight provision
for the poor and destitute
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who suffer greatly
at the present time.
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Take pity on us, sir.
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We've got no lodgings.
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Many thousands are
in want of common necessaries
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hundreds of thousands are in
want of common comforts, sir.
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Are there no prisons?
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Plenty of prisons.
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And the Union workhouses?
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Are they still in operation?
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They are. I wish
I could say they were not.
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The Treadmill and the Poor Law
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are in full vigour then?
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Both very busy, sir.
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Oh. I was afraid,
from what you said at first
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that something had occurred
to stop them
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in their useful course.
I'm very glad to hear it.
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Under the impression
that they scarcely furnish
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Christian cheer of mind or body
to the multitude
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a few of us are endeavouring
to raise a fund
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to buy the poor some meat
and drink and means of warmth.
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We choose this time,
because it is a time
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of all others,
when want is keenly felt
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and abundance rejoices.
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What shall I put you down for?
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Nothing!
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You wish to be anonymous?
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I wish to be left alone
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since you ask me what I wish,
gentlemen, that is my answer.
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I don't make merry myself
at Christmas
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and I can't afford
to make idle people merry.
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I help to support the
establishments I have mentioned
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they cost enough, and those
who are badly off must go there.
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Many can't go there
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and many would rather die.
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The missus goes
that way, you that way.
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No argument, mind.
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If they would rather die
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they had better do it
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and decrease
the surplus population.
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Besides, it's not my business.
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It's enough for a man
to understand his own business
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and not to interfere
with other people's.
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Mine occupies me constantly.
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Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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Hurry along, there!
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No talking.
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Eyes to the front!
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Another gin, waiter!
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Finished with the paper?
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Scrooge took
his melancholy dinner
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in his usual melancholy tavern
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and having read
all the newspapers
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went home to bed.
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Charity?
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It's Christmas, guv.
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Let any man
explain to me if he can
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how it happened that Scrooge
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having his key
in the lock of the door
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saw in the knocker.
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Marley's face.
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Marley's face...
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It had a dismal light about it
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like a bad lobster
in a dark cellar.
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That, and its livid colour
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made it horrible.
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As Scrooge looked fixedly
at this phenomenon
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it was a knocker again.
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The bells ceased
as they had begun, together.
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They were succeeded by
a clanking noise from the attic
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as if some person were dragging
a heavy chain over the beams.
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Then he heard the noise
much louder
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coming straight towards
his door.
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What do you want with me?
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Much.
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In life, I was your partner
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Jacob Marley.
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You don't believe in me?
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Why do you doubt your senses?
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Because
a little thing affects them.
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A slight disorder of the stomach
makes them cheats.
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You might be an undigested bit
of beef, a crumb of cheese
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a fragment of underdone potato.
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There's more of gravy
than of grave about you.
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Why do spirits walk the earth?
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And why do they come to me?
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It is required...
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...of every man
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that the sprit within him
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should walk among
his fellow man
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and travel far and wide
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and if that spirit
goes not forth in life
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it is condemned to do so
after death.
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Oh, woe is me!
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You are fettered.
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I wear the chains
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I forged in life.
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I made it link by link
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and yard by yard.
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I girded it on
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and of my own free will.
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I wore it.
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Is its pattern strange to you?
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Or would you know
the weight and length
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of the strong coil
you wear yourself?
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It was full as heavy
and as long as this
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seven Christmases ago...
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and you have
laboured on it since.
264
00:20:30,916 --> 00:20:34,666
Jacob, tell me more.
Speak comfort to me!
265
00:20:34,832 --> 00:20:37,874
I have none to give.
266
00:20:38,291 --> 00:20:40,999
But you were always
a good man of business, Jacob.
267
00:20:41,416 --> 00:20:42,957
Business!
268
00:20:43,624 --> 00:20:47,291
Mankind was my business.
269
00:20:48,332 --> 00:20:52,249
The common welfare
was my business.
270
00:20:52,957 --> 00:20:57,291
Charity, mercy and benevolence
271
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were all my business.
272
00:21:07,832 --> 00:21:11,082
At this time of year,
I suffer most.
273
00:21:11,499 --> 00:21:12,874
She's a ripe one.
274
00:21:12,957 --> 00:21:14,791
Ripe for the picking!
275
00:21:15,832 --> 00:21:19,249
Why did I walk through crowds
276
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of fellow beings
with my eyes turned down
277
00:21:23,499 --> 00:21:27,499
and never raise them
to that blessed star
278
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which led the Wise Men
to a poor abode!
279
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Hear me!
280
00:21:35,374 --> 00:21:38,082
My time is nearly gone.
281
00:21:39,832 --> 00:21:42,541
I am here tonight to warn you
282
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that you have yet a hope
283
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of escaping my fate.
284
00:21:49,749 --> 00:21:51,957
You were always
a good friend to me. Thank ye!
285
00:21:52,582 --> 00:21:54,874
You will...
286
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be haunted by three spirits.
287
00:22:08,082 --> 00:22:13,916
Expect the first
when the bell tolls midnight.
288
00:22:14,124 --> 00:22:17,249
Look to see me no more
289
00:22:17,332 --> 00:22:19,166
and remember
290
00:22:19,707 --> 00:22:24,541
what has passed between us.
291
00:22:36,916 --> 00:22:39,666
The air was filled with phantoms
292
00:22:39,749 --> 00:22:42,791
wandering hither and thither
in restless haste
293
00:22:42,874 --> 00:22:44,707
and moaning as they went.
294
00:22:49,499 --> 00:22:52,957
Every one of them wore chains
like Marley's Ghost
295
00:22:53,499 --> 00:22:56,041
some few, they might be guilty
governments
296
00:22:56,124 --> 00:22:57,624
were linked together.
297
00:22:57,749 --> 00:22:59,416
None were free.
298
00:23:03,666 --> 00:23:08,457
Many had been personally known
to Scrooge in their lives.
299
00:23:09,499 --> 00:23:12,457
He had been quite familiar
with one old ghost
300
00:23:12,541 --> 00:23:14,874
who cried piteously
301
00:23:15,082 --> 00:23:18,207
at being unable to assist
a wretched housekeeper
302
00:23:18,291 --> 00:23:21,707
with an infant whom it saw
below, upon a doorstep.
303
00:23:24,082 --> 00:23:26,624
Whether these creatures
faded into mist
304
00:23:26,832 --> 00:23:28,791
or mist enshrouded them
305
00:23:28,874 --> 00:23:30,749
he could not tell.
306
00:23:30,832 --> 00:23:35,124
But they and their
spirit voices faded together
307
00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:39,416
and the night
became as it had been.
308
00:23:40,249 --> 00:23:44,832
# Hark the herald... #
309
00:23:47,207 --> 00:23:49,666
The Ghost of Christmas Past.
310
00:24:03,791 --> 00:24:05,499
When Scrooge awoke
311
00:24:05,791 --> 00:24:08,874
the neighbouring church
struck the four quarters
312
00:24:08,957 --> 00:24:11,082
so he listened for the hour.
313
00:24:16,249 --> 00:24:17,374
Twelve.
314
00:24:18,041 --> 00:24:21,374
Marley's Ghost
bothered him exceedingly.
315
00:24:22,332 --> 00:24:25,041
Was it a dream, or not?
316
00:24:27,541 --> 00:24:30,249
Are you the spirit
whose coming was foretold me?
317
00:24:30,957 --> 00:24:33,707
I am
the Ghost of Christmas Past.
318
00:24:34,624 --> 00:24:35,791
Your past.
319
00:24:35,874 --> 00:24:37,499
What business brought you here?
320
00:24:37,582 --> 00:24:38,999
Your welfare.
321
00:24:39,124 --> 00:24:42,207
Scrooge expressed
himself much obliged
322
00:24:42,707 --> 00:24:46,791
but could not help thinking
that a night of unbroken rest
323
00:24:46,874 --> 00:24:49,291
would have been more conducive
to that end.
324
00:24:49,916 --> 00:24:52,666
The Spirit must have
heard him thinking.
325
00:24:53,082 --> 00:24:55,124
Your reclamation, then.
326
00:24:55,332 --> 00:24:56,666
Take heed.
327
00:24:57,791 --> 00:25:00,832
It put out
its strong hand as it spoke
328
00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,666
and clasped him gently
by the arm.
329
00:25:04,416 --> 00:25:07,749
It would have been in vain
for Scrooge to plead
330
00:25:08,041 --> 00:25:09,957
that the bed was warm
331
00:25:10,082 --> 00:25:13,166
and the thermometer
a long way below freezing
332
00:25:13,249 --> 00:25:16,249
and that he was clad
but lightly in his slippers
333
00:25:16,332 --> 00:25:18,082
dressing gown and nightcap
334
00:25:18,166 --> 00:25:20,999
and that he had a cold upon him
at that time.
335
00:25:21,249 --> 00:25:25,666
The grasp, though gentle,
was not to be resisted.
336
00:25:28,541 --> 00:25:31,957
He rose, and somehow knew
337
00:25:32,207 --> 00:25:35,207
that the spirit would take him
into the air.
338
00:25:36,041 --> 00:25:38,166
I am mortal, and liable to fall.
339
00:25:39,041 --> 00:25:41,874
Bear but
a touch of my hand there.
340
00:25:42,457 --> 00:25:45,791
And you shall be upheld
in more than this.
341
00:25:46,957 --> 00:25:49,457
As the words were spoken
342
00:25:49,874 --> 00:25:52,416
they passed through the wall
343
00:25:52,916 --> 00:25:56,791
and stood upon
an open country road
344
00:25:57,166 --> 00:25:59,374
with fields on either hand.
345
00:26:03,957 --> 00:26:06,332
Happy Christmas, Will, Charlie!
346
00:26:06,791 --> 00:26:07,874
Good Heaven!
347
00:26:08,541 --> 00:26:11,457
I was bred in this place.
I was a boy here.
348
00:26:13,207 --> 00:26:16,624
He was conscious
of a thousand odours
349
00:26:16,707 --> 00:26:19,916
floating in the air,
each one connected
350
00:26:19,999 --> 00:26:24,041
with a thousand thoughts,
and hopes, and joys
351
00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:27,916
and cares long, long forgotten.
352
00:26:28,749 --> 00:26:30,832
You recollect the way?
353
00:26:31,249 --> 00:26:33,749
Remember it!
I could walk it blindfold.
354
00:26:33,832 --> 00:26:35,874
Strange you have forgotten it
355
00:26:35,957 --> 00:26:37,749
for so many years.
356
00:26:37,874 --> 00:26:39,832
They walked along the road.
357
00:26:39,916 --> 00:26:43,332
Scrooge recognising every gate
358
00:26:43,416 --> 00:26:45,457
and post and tree
359
00:26:46,041 --> 00:26:49,166
until a little market town
appeared in the distance.
360
00:26:49,374 --> 00:26:51,207
These are but the shadows
361
00:26:51,291 --> 00:26:52,707
of the things that have been.
362
00:26:52,791 --> 00:26:54,291
See you next year!
363
00:26:54,374 --> 00:26:57,207
Next year...
How funny that sounds!
364
00:26:57,374 --> 00:27:00,582
The school
is not quite deserted.
365
00:27:00,999 --> 00:27:02,874
A solitary child...
366
00:27:03,249 --> 00:27:05,499
...neglected by his friends
367
00:27:06,082 --> 00:27:07,916
is left there still.
368
00:27:09,249 --> 00:27:11,624
The spirit
touched him on the arm
369
00:27:11,916 --> 00:27:14,624
and pointed to his young self
370
00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:18,832
a lonely boy
reading by a feeble fire.
371
00:27:20,582 --> 00:27:22,499
Scrooge wept
372
00:27:22,874 --> 00:27:27,374
to see his poor forgotten self
as he used to be.
373
00:27:29,832 --> 00:27:31,666
Why, it's old Tom!
374
00:27:32,749 --> 00:27:35,166
It's dear old, honest Tom.
375
00:27:35,957 --> 00:27:37,541
Yes, yes, I know...
376
00:27:40,541 --> 00:27:43,291
One Christmas time,
when yonder solitary child
377
00:27:43,374 --> 00:27:45,499
was left here all alone
378
00:27:46,457 --> 00:27:47,916
he did come to cheer me.
379
00:27:48,916 --> 00:27:50,124
Poor boy.
380
00:27:50,499 --> 00:27:52,916
Scrooge thought he was dreaming
381
00:27:53,624 --> 00:27:54,832
but he wasn't.
382
00:27:55,541 --> 00:27:58,416
Then,
with a rapidity of transition
383
00:27:58,499 --> 00:28:01,291
very foreign
to his usual character
384
00:28:01,874 --> 00:28:05,082
he said,
in pity for his former self.
385
00:28:05,957 --> 00:28:07,541
“ "Poor boy!"
386
00:28:08,457 --> 00:28:10,249
And cried again.
387
00:28:13,041 --> 00:28:14,207
I wish...
388
00:28:15,374 --> 00:28:16,874
But it's too late now.
389
00:28:18,624 --> 00:28:20,332
What is the matter?
390
00:28:20,416 --> 00:28:21,291
Nothing.
391
00:28:21,374 --> 00:28:24,041
There was a boy singing
a Christmas Carol last night.
392
00:28:24,457 --> 00:28:26,791
I should like to have
given him something, that's all.
393
00:28:27,707 --> 00:28:30,041
Let us see another Christmas.
394
00:28:37,166 --> 00:28:39,124
He was not reading now
395
00:28:39,666 --> 00:28:42,541
but walking up and down
despairingly.
396
00:28:43,749 --> 00:28:45,874
Scrooge looked at the ghost
397
00:28:46,124 --> 00:28:49,041
and with a mournful
shaking of his head
398
00:28:49,332 --> 00:28:52,207
glanced anxiously
towards the door.
399
00:28:57,541 --> 00:28:59,916
Oh, dear, dear brother!
400
00:29:00,916 --> 00:29:03,541
I have come to bring you home,
dear brother!
401
00:29:03,749 --> 00:29:05,499
To bring you home, home, home!
402
00:29:06,916 --> 00:29:08,374
Home, little Fan?
403
00:29:08,666 --> 00:29:11,582
Yes! Home, for good and all.
404
00:29:12,416 --> 00:29:14,124
Home, for ever and ever.
405
00:29:15,582 --> 00:29:18,249
Father is so much kinder
than he used to be.
406
00:29:20,082 --> 00:29:21,957
He spoke so gently to me
one night
407
00:29:22,041 --> 00:29:23,291
when I was going to bed
408
00:29:23,624 --> 00:29:27,666
that I was not afraid to ask him
once more if you might come home
409
00:29:28,457 --> 00:29:30,957
and he said, "Yes, you should!"
410
00:29:31,707 --> 00:29:33,666
And sent me in a coach
to bring you.
411
00:29:34,374 --> 00:29:36,999
And you are never
to come back here.
412
00:29:38,499 --> 00:29:39,916
But first...
413
00:29:40,666 --> 00:29:43,416
we're to be together
all Christmas long
414
00:29:43,791 --> 00:29:47,291
and have the merriest time
in all the world!
415
00:29:47,999 --> 00:29:50,207
You are quite
a housekeeper, little Fan.
416
00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:54,124
You must come with me now.
417
00:30:02,291 --> 00:30:03,999
Do you know this place?
418
00:30:05,082 --> 00:30:06,832
Know it! Of course I know it.
419
00:30:06,999 --> 00:30:08,499
Was I not apprenticed here?
420
00:30:08,791 --> 00:30:12,332
Scrooge's former
self, now grown a young man
421
00:30:12,416 --> 00:30:16,166
came briskly in, accompanied
by his fellow prentice.
422
00:30:21,582 --> 00:30:24,124
Dick Wilkins, to be sure!
423
00:30:24,291 --> 00:30:26,041
Bless me, yes, there he is!
424
00:30:26,957 --> 00:30:29,791
He was very much attached to me,
was Dick.
425
00:30:30,291 --> 00:30:31,332
Poor Dick.
426
00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:34,624
Why, it's old Fezziwig!
427
00:30:35,332 --> 00:30:38,624
Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig,
alive again!
428
00:30:39,874 --> 00:30:42,332
Old Fezziwig laid down his pen
429
00:30:42,416 --> 00:30:43,957
and looked at his watch.
430
00:30:44,166 --> 00:30:48,582
He rubbed his hands,
adjusted his capacious waistcoat
431
00:30:48,666 --> 00:30:51,624
and called out
in a comfortable, oily
432
00:30:51,707 --> 00:30:54,749
rich, fat, jovial voice...
433
00:30:55,166 --> 00:30:57,457
Yo-ho, there, Ebenezer!
434
00:30:57,666 --> 00:30:59,499
Yo-ho, my boys!
435
00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:01,457
No more work tonight!
436
00:31:01,957 --> 00:31:03,707
Christmas, Ebenezer.
437
00:31:04,082 --> 00:31:05,457
Ry o!
438
00:31:05,749 --> 00:31:07,166
Clear away, my lads
439
00:31:07,249 --> 00:31:09,207
and let's have
lots of room here.
440
00:31:09,291 --> 00:31:10,416
Clear away!
441
00:31:10,957 --> 00:31:13,166
It was done in a minute.
442
00:31:13,332 --> 00:31:16,624
The floor was swept and watered,
and the lamps were trimmed
443
00:31:16,707 --> 00:31:19,457
and the warehouse
was as snug and warm
444
00:31:19,582 --> 00:31:22,124
and dry and bright a ballroom
445
00:31:22,249 --> 00:31:25,207
as you would desire to see
upon a winter's night.
446
00:31:28,624 --> 00:31:30,999
In came a fiddler
with a music book
447
00:31:31,082 --> 00:31:34,666
and went up to the lofty desk,
and made an orchestra of it
448
00:31:34,749 --> 00:31:37,957
and tuned like 50 stomach aches.
449
00:31:38,541 --> 00:31:43,999
In came Mrs Fezziwig,
one vast substantial smile.
450
00:31:44,916 --> 00:31:47,332
In came the three Miss Fezziwigs
451
00:31:47,457 --> 00:31:49,041
beaming and lovable.
452
00:31:49,457 --> 00:31:53,374
In came the six young followers
whose hearts they broke.
453
00:31:53,749 --> 00:31:57,499
In came all the young men and
women employed in the business.
454
00:31:58,082 --> 00:32:00,874
In came the housemaid,
with her cousin, the baker.
455
00:32:01,041 --> 00:32:04,582
In came the cook, with her
brother's particular friend
456
00:32:04,666 --> 00:32:05,666
the milkman.
457
00:32:05,874 --> 00:32:07,916
In came the boy
from over the way
458
00:32:07,999 --> 00:32:10,416
who was suspected of not
having board enough
459
00:32:10,499 --> 00:32:11,666
from his master.
460
00:32:11,791 --> 00:32:15,707
In they all came,
anyhow and everyhow.
461
00:32:16,499 --> 00:32:19,541
There were dances
and more dances
462
00:32:19,791 --> 00:32:22,791
and there were forfeits,
and more dances
463
00:32:23,082 --> 00:32:25,582
and there was cake,
and there was negus
464
00:32:25,874 --> 00:32:28,249
and there was a great piece
of cold roast
465
00:32:28,332 --> 00:32:31,041
and there was a great piece
of cold boiled
466
00:32:31,291 --> 00:32:35,416
and there were mince pies,
and plenty of beer.
467
00:32:49,416 --> 00:32:50,999
During the whole of this time.
468
00:32:51,082 --> 00:32:54,541
Scrooge had acted like
a man out of his wits.
469
00:32:55,291 --> 00:32:58,291
His heart and soul/
were in the scene
470
00:32:58,582 --> 00:33:00,582
and with his former self.
471
00:33:02,416 --> 00:33:04,332
It was not until now
472
00:33:04,582 --> 00:33:06,916
when the bright face
of his former self
473
00:33:07,041 --> 00:33:08,499
was turned from them
474
00:33:08,749 --> 00:33:10,749
that he remembered the ghost
475
00:33:11,582 --> 00:33:15,791
and became conscious that
it was looking full upon him.
476
00:33:16,791 --> 00:33:18,017
A small matter
477
00:33:18,041 --> 00:33:20,999
to make these silly folk
so full of gratitude.
478
00:33:21,124 --> 00:33:22,124
Small!
479
00:33:22,207 --> 00:33:24,291
Why? Is it not small?
480
00:33:24,666 --> 00:33:26,957
He has spent but a few pounds.
481
00:33:27,541 --> 00:33:31,041
Is that so much
that he deserves this praise?
482
00:33:31,541 --> 00:33:33,957
Scrooge, heated by the remark
483
00:33:34,041 --> 00:33:36,582
and speaking unconsciously
like his former
484
00:33:36,666 --> 00:33:38,666
not his latter self, said...
485
00:33:38,832 --> 00:33:40,291
It isn't that, Spirit!
486
00:33:40,374 --> 00:33:43,332
He has the power to render us
happy or unhappy.
487
00:33:44,249 --> 00:33:46,749
To make our service
light or burdensome
488
00:33:46,874 --> 00:33:48,332
a pleasure or a toil.
489
00:33:49,624 --> 00:33:51,332
The happiness he gives
490
00:33:51,624 --> 00:33:53,999
is quite as great
as if it cost a fortune.
491
00:33:56,291 --> 00:34:00,041
He felt the
spirit's glance, and stopped.
492
00:34:00,624 --> 00:34:02,144
What is the matter?
493
00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:03,457
Nothing in particular.
494
00:34:03,707 --> 00:34:05,541
Something, I think?
495
00:34:06,249 --> 00:34:08,416
I should like to be
able to say a word or two
496
00:34:08,499 --> 00:34:10,457
to my clerk just now.
That's all.
497
00:34:57,207 --> 00:35:00,374
We must away, to your sister.
498
00:35:06,124 --> 00:35:08,249
Always a delicate creature
499
00:35:08,499 --> 00:35:10,374
whom a breath
might have withered
500
00:35:11,082 --> 00:35:13,166
but she had a large heart.
501
00:35:13,499 --> 00:35:15,291
So she had. You're right.
502
00:35:15,541 --> 00:35:17,082
I'll not deny it for a second.
503
00:35:17,707 --> 00:35:18,832
God forbid.
504
00:35:19,624 --> 00:35:21,166
She died a woman
505
00:35:21,291 --> 00:35:23,416
and had, I think, children.
506
00:35:26,749 --> 00:35:27,957
One child.
507
00:35:28,082 --> 00:35:29,957
True, your nephew.
508
00:35:43,916 --> 00:35:46,291
My time grows short. Quick.
509
00:36:04,207 --> 00:36:05,916
He was older now.
510
00:36:06,291 --> 00:36:09,332
His face had begun
to wear the signs
511
00:36:09,457 --> 00:36:11,416
of care and avarice.
512
00:36:11,707 --> 00:36:16,374
There was an eager, greedy,
restless motion in the eye
513
00:36:16,749 --> 00:36:19,916
which showed the passion
that had taken root
514
00:36:20,332 --> 00:36:24,124
and where the shadow
of the growing tree would fall.
515
00:36:25,749 --> 00:36:29,124
He was sat by the side
of a fair young girl
516
00:36:29,416 --> 00:36:31,957
in whose eyes there were tears.
517
00:36:45,874 --> 00:36:47,249
It matters little.
518
00:36:48,416 --> 00:36:49,666
To you, very little.
519
00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:52,541
Another idol has displaced me
520
00:36:52,957 --> 00:36:55,207
and if it can cheer and
comfort you in time to come
521
00:36:55,291 --> 00:36:56,707
as I would have tried to do
522
00:36:56,874 --> 00:36:58,374
I have no just cause to grieve.
523
00:36:58,457 --> 00:36:59,999
What idol has displaced you?
524
00:37:00,499 --> 00:37:01,832
A golden one.
525
00:37:05,832 --> 00:37:08,124
This is the even-handed
dealing of the world.
526
00:37:08,249 --> 00:37:10,874
There is nothing on which
It is so hard as poverty
527
00:37:10,957 --> 00:37:12,791
and there is nothing
it professes to condemn
528
00:37:12,874 --> 00:37:15,041
with such severity
as the pursuit of wealth!
529
00:37:16,499 --> 00:37:18,957
You fear the world too much.
530
00:37:24,082 --> 00:37:27,082
All your other hopes have merged
into the hope of wealth.
531
00:37:27,916 --> 00:37:31,499
I have seen your nobler
aspirations fall off one by one
532
00:37:31,624 --> 00:37:34,874
until the master passion, gain,
engrosses you. Have I not?
533
00:37:37,041 --> 00:37:38,082
What then?
534
00:37:38,166 --> 00:37:41,166
Even if I have grown
so much wiser, what then?
535
00:37:41,499 --> 00:37:43,082
I am not changed towards you.
536
00:37:45,916 --> 00:37:46,957
Am I?
537
00:37:49,957 --> 00:37:52,332
Our contract is an old one.
538
00:37:52,999 --> 00:37:55,916
It was made when we were both
poor and content to be so
539
00:37:55,999 --> 00:37:58,332
until, in good season,
we could improve
540
00:37:58,416 --> 00:38:01,041
our worldly fortune
by our patient industry.
541
00:38:02,291 --> 00:38:03,499
You are changed.
542
00:38:04,041 --> 00:38:06,124
When it was made,
you were another man.
543
00:38:10,291 --> 00:38:11,499
I was a boy.
544
00:38:16,332 --> 00:38:18,707
Your own feeling tells you
that you were not then
545
00:38:18,791 --> 00:38:19,916
what you are now.
546
00:38:20,666 --> 00:38:23,041
That which promised happiness
when we were one in heart
547
00:38:23,124 --> 00:38:25,416
is fraught with misery
now that we are two.
548
00:38:29,249 --> 00:38:30,791
It is enough
that I have thought of it
549
00:38:30,874 --> 00:38:32,957
- and can release you.
- Have I ever sought release?
550
00:38:33,041 --> 00:38:34,082
In words?
551
00:38:34,457 --> 00:38:36,249
- No. Never.
- In what, then?
552
00:38:36,374 --> 00:38:38,916
In everything that made
my love of any worth
553
00:38:38,999 --> 00:38:40,457
or value in your sight.
554
00:38:41,749 --> 00:38:43,874
If this had never been
between us, tell me
555
00:38:43,999 --> 00:38:46,541
would you seek me out
and try to win me now?
556
00:38:47,374 --> 00:38:49,749
He seemed to yield
to the justice
557
00:38:49,832 --> 00:38:52,207
of this supposition,
in spite of himself.
558
00:38:52,582 --> 00:38:55,457
But he said, with a struggle...
559
00:38:56,291 --> 00:38:57,541
You think not?
560
00:38:58,791 --> 00:39:01,124
I would gladly
think otherwise, if I could.
561
00:39:02,041 --> 00:39:05,082
But if you were free today,
tomorrow, yesterday
562
00:39:05,624 --> 00:39:08,041
can I believe that you would
choose a poor girl?
563
00:39:08,166 --> 00:39:10,832
You, who now
weigh everything by gain.
564
00:39:14,749 --> 00:39:16,582
If, for a moment,
you were false enough
565
00:39:16,666 --> 00:39:18,416
to your one guiding principle
566
00:39:18,624 --> 00:39:21,916
I know that your repentance
and regret would surely follow.
567
00:39:26,541 --> 00:39:28,291
He was about to speak
568
00:39:28,416 --> 00:39:30,499
but with her head
turned from him
569
00:39:30,624 --> 00:39:32,082
she walked away.
570
00:39:33,791 --> 00:39:35,457
He did not follow.
571
00:39:41,041 --> 00:39:42,707
Spirit! Show me no more!
572
00:39:42,916 --> 00:39:45,874
Conduct me home. Why do you
delight to torture me?
573
00:39:47,666 --> 00:39:49,499
One shadow more.
574
00:39:50,082 --> 00:39:51,999
No more, I don't wish to see it!
575
00:39:52,082 --> 00:39:53,332
Show me no more!
576
00:39:54,291 --> 00:39:56,541
But the relentless
ghost pinioned him
577
00:39:56,624 --> 00:39:57,957
in both his arms
578
00:39:58,041 --> 00:40:01,707
and forced him to observe
what happened next.
579
00:40:07,374 --> 00:40:09,707
They were now years hence.
580
00:40:10,416 --> 00:40:13,957
A room,
not very large or handsome
581
00:40:14,166 --> 00:40:15,832
but full of comfort.
582
00:40:16,541 --> 00:40:19,749
Near to the fire
sat a beautiful young girl
583
00:40:19,957 --> 00:40:21,749
so like that last
584
00:40:21,874 --> 00:40:24,207
that Scrooge believed
it was the same
585
00:40:24,457 --> 00:40:26,249
until he saw her
586
00:40:26,374 --> 00:40:30,666
now a comely matron,
sitting opposite her daughter.
587
00:40:31,916 --> 00:40:34,291
And now Scrooge looked on
588
00:40:34,374 --> 00:40:36,166
more attentively than ever
589
00:40:36,499 --> 00:40:38,374
when the master of the house
590
00:40:38,499 --> 00:40:41,582
having his eldest daughter
leaning fondly on him
591
00:40:41,749 --> 00:40:46,249
sat down with her and her mother
at his own fireside.
592
00:40:47,041 --> 00:40:51,166
And when he thought
that such another creature
593
00:40:51,249 --> 00:40:53,416
quite as graceful
and as full of promise
594
00:40:53,582 --> 00:40:55,416
might have called him father
595
00:40:55,499 --> 00:40:58,957
and been a springtime in
the haggard winter of his life
596
00:40:59,541 --> 00:41:03,541
his sight grew very dim indeed.
597
00:41:14,749 --> 00:41:17,041
Spirit!
Remove me from this place.
598
00:41:17,666 --> 00:41:19,791
I told you these were shadows
599
00:41:19,874 --> 00:41:21,916
of the things that have been.
600
00:41:22,249 --> 00:41:25,582
They are what they are.
Do not blame me.
601
00:41:26,666 --> 00:41:28,832
Remove me! I cannot bear it!
602
00:41:29,874 --> 00:41:32,082
He turned upon the ghost
603
00:41:32,582 --> 00:41:35,082
and seeing that it looked
upon him with a face
604
00:41:35,166 --> 00:41:37,749
in which, in some strange way
605
00:41:37,832 --> 00:41:41,457
there were fragments of
all the faces it had shown him
606
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:43,374
wrestled with it.
607
00:41:45,082 --> 00:41:47,916
He was conscious
of being exhausted
608
00:41:48,124 --> 00:41:51,582
and overcome
by an irresistible drowsiness...
609
00:42:00,874 --> 00:42:02,124
and further...
610
00:42:02,707 --> 00:42:05,874
of being in his own bedroom.
611
00:42:12,791 --> 00:42:15,082
The Ghost of Christmas Present.
612
00:42:17,541 --> 00:42:21,874
He woke in the middle
of a prodigiously tough snore
613
00:42:22,124 --> 00:42:24,832
and sat up in bed
to get his thoughts together.
614
00:42:26,374 --> 00:42:32,207
# Go, go tell it #
615
00:42:36,541 --> 00:42:42,374
# Go, go tell it #
616
00:42:45,916 --> 00:42:50,291
# On the mountain... #
617
00:42:50,416 --> 00:42:52,457
It was his own room.
618
00:42:52,707 --> 00:42:54,582
There was no doubt about that.
619
00:42:55,291 --> 00:42:58,791
But it had undergone
a surprising transformation.
620
00:43:00,416 --> 00:43:03,666
A mighty blaze went roaring up
the chimney
621
00:43:03,791 --> 00:43:06,541
as that dull petrifaction
of a hearth
622
00:43:06,624 --> 00:43:10,541
had never known
in Scrooge's time, or Marley's
623
00:43:10,624 --> 00:43:14,499
or for many and many
a winter season gone.
624
00:43:15,749 --> 00:43:19,041
A jolly giant, glorious to see
625
00:43:19,374 --> 00:43:21,582
who bore a glowing torch
626
00:43:21,666 --> 00:43:24,499
in shape not unlike
plenty's horn
627
00:43:24,874 --> 00:43:30,124
and held it up, high up,
to shed its light on Scrooge
628
00:43:30,249 --> 00:43:33,374
as he came peeping
round the door.
629
00:43:35,624 --> 00:43:37,999
Come in! Come in,
and know me better, man!
630
00:43:38,874 --> 00:43:41,291
Scrooge entered timidly
631
00:43:41,791 --> 00:43:44,541
and hung his head
before this spirit.
632
00:43:45,416 --> 00:43:48,916
He was not the dogged Scrooge
he had been
633
00:43:49,582 --> 00:43:53,166
and though the spirit's eyes
were clear and kind
634
00:43:54,082 --> 00:43:56,249
he did not like to meet them.
635
00:43:57,124 --> 00:43:59,225
I am
the Ghost of Christmas Present.
636
00:43:59,249 --> 00:44:00,249
Look upon me.
637
00:44:00,332 --> 00:44:02,999
Scrooge reverently did so.
638
00:44:04,082 --> 00:44:08,332
It was clothed
in one simple green robe
639
00:44:08,666 --> 00:44:10,332
bordered with white fur.
640
00:44:11,124 --> 00:44:14,082
This garment hung loosely
on the figure.
641
00:44:14,666 --> 00:44:18,666
Its feet, observable beneath
the ample folds of the garment
642
00:44:18,791 --> 00:44:21,499
were bare, and on its head
643
00:44:21,707 --> 00:44:24,916
it wore no other covering
than a holly wreath.
644
00:44:25,791 --> 00:44:28,832
Girded round its middle
was an antique scabbard
645
00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:30,999
but no sword was in it
646
00:44:31,499 --> 00:44:36,082
and the ancient sheath
was eaten up with rust.
647
00:44:37,291 --> 00:44:38,558
You've never seen
648
00:44:38,582 --> 00:44:40,624
- the like of me before.
- Never, sir.
649
00:44:40,707 --> 00:44:42,183
Have never walked forth
650
00:44:42,207 --> 00:44:43,687
with the younger members
of my family?
651
00:44:43,749 --> 00:44:45,791
I'm afraid I have not.
652
00:44:46,082 --> 00:44:47,707
Have you had many brothers,
Spirit?
653
00:44:47,832 --> 00:44:49,457
More than 1,800.
654
00:44:50,332 --> 00:44:52,207
Spirit, conduct me
where you will.
655
00:44:52,916 --> 00:44:54,791
I went forth last night
on compulsion
656
00:44:54,916 --> 00:44:57,416
and I learnt a lesson
which is working now.
657
00:44:58,332 --> 00:45:00,041
Tonight,
if you have aught to teach me
658
00:45:00,124 --> 00:45:01,249
let me profit by it.
659
00:45:01,499 --> 00:45:02,999
Touch my robe.
660
00:45:03,082 --> 00:45:06,832
Scrooge did as
he was told, and held it fast.
661
00:45:16,916 --> 00:45:22,957
# On the mountain #
662
00:45:24,582 --> 00:45:30,999
# Go tell it on the mountain #
663
00:45:31,374 --> 00:45:34,874
# Go tell #
664
00:45:36,832 --> 00:45:38,999
Go to sleep,
or he won't come.
665
00:45:40,332 --> 00:45:41,749
Will we leave a carrot?
666
00:45:43,624 --> 00:45:45,207
Thank you, Your Majesty.
667
00:45:46,957 --> 00:45:49,624
The size, we'll still
be serving it at Easter!
668
00:45:54,207 --> 00:45:56,082
They stood in the city streets
669
00:45:56,166 --> 00:45:57,582
on Christmas morning.
670
00:45:58,291 --> 00:46:01,957
There was nothing very cheerful
in the climate or the town
671
00:46:02,207 --> 00:46:05,832
and yet there was an air
of cheerfulness abroad
672
00:46:05,916 --> 00:46:08,291
that the clearest summer air
673
00:46:08,374 --> 00:46:10,041
and brightest summer sun
674
00:46:10,124 --> 00:46:12,832
might have endeavoured
to diffuse in vain.
675
00:46:12,916 --> 00:46:16,291
Fresh oysters! Fresh oysters!
676
00:46:17,124 --> 00:46:20,124
The people were,
by this time, pouring forth.
677
00:46:21,582 --> 00:46:23,166
Buy any milk today?
678
00:46:23,249 --> 00:46:26,874
The grocers, oh, the grocers!
679
00:46:27,291 --> 00:46:30,207
The blended scents
of tea and coffee
680
00:46:30,291 --> 00:46:32,666
were so grateful to the nose.
681
00:46:32,957 --> 00:46:35,624
The sticks of cinnamon
so long and straight
682
00:46:35,874 --> 00:46:38,791
the candied fruits so caked
683
00:46:38,916 --> 00:46:41,082
and spotted with molten sugar.
684
00:46:41,707 --> 00:46:45,332
The customers were all
so hurried and so eager
685
00:46:45,416 --> 00:46:47,249
in the hopeful promise
of the day
686
00:46:47,332 --> 00:46:49,791
that they tumbled up
against each other at the door
687
00:46:49,874 --> 00:46:52,416
clashing their
wicker baskets wildly.
688
00:46:54,249 --> 00:46:56,082
But soon, the steeples
689
00:46:56,166 --> 00:46:58,291
called good people all to church
690
00:46:58,457 --> 00:47:01,166
flocking through the streets
in their best clothes
691
00:47:01,249 --> 00:47:03,207
and with their gayest faces.
692
00:47:07,332 --> 00:47:09,624
And at the same time,
there emerged
693
00:47:09,707 --> 00:47:13,916
from scores of by-streets,
lanes and nameless turnings
694
00:47:14,124 --> 00:47:15,874
innumerable people
695
00:47:15,957 --> 00:47:19,041
carrying their dinners
to the bakers' shops.
696
00:47:21,124 --> 00:47:22,791
The sight of these
poor revellers
697
00:47:22,874 --> 00:47:25,457
appeared to interest
the spirit very much
698
00:47:25,624 --> 00:47:28,999
for he stood with Scrooge
beside him in a baker's doorway
699
00:47:29,249 --> 00:47:33,041
and sprinkled incense
on their dinners from his torch.
700
00:47:37,291 --> 00:47:38,874
Mrs Johnson's got beef?
701
00:47:38,957 --> 00:47:40,832
She must've been
at the old man's wages
702
00:47:40,916 --> 00:47:42,791
before he got to the pub!
703
00:47:42,874 --> 00:47:45,114
Is there a peculiar
flavour in what you sprinkle
704
00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:46,832
- from your torch?
- There is.
705
00:47:46,916 --> 00:47:47,916
My own.
706
00:47:48,166 --> 00:47:50,457
Would it apply to any
kind of dinner on this day?
707
00:47:50,541 --> 00:47:51,892
To any kindly given.
708
00:47:51,916 --> 00:47:53,082
To a poor one most.
709
00:47:53,207 --> 00:47:54,499
Why to a poor one most?
710
00:47:54,582 --> 00:47:56,462
Because it needs it most.
711
00:47:56,749 --> 00:47:59,082
Spirit, I wonder you,
of all the beings
712
00:47:59,166 --> 00:48:01,666
in the many worlds about us,
should desire to cramp
713
00:48:01,749 --> 00:48:03,749
these people's opportunities
of innocent enjoyment.
714
00:48:03,832 --> 00:48:04,707
I?
715
00:48:04,791 --> 00:48:06,558
You would deprive
those that have no hearths
716
00:48:06,582 --> 00:48:08,791
of their own, the means of
cooking every seventh day
717
00:48:08,874 --> 00:48:11,142
often the only day on which
they can be said to dine at all
718
00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:12,166
wouldn't you?
719
00:48:12,207 --> 00:48:14,832
You seek to close
these bakeries on the Sabbath.
720
00:48:14,916 --> 00:48:16,874
- It comes to the same thing.
- I seek...
721
00:48:16,957 --> 00:48:18,291
Forgive me if I am wrong.
722
00:48:18,374 --> 00:48:19,582
It has been done in your name
723
00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:21,416
or at least
in that of your family.
724
00:48:24,666 --> 00:48:26,582
There are some
upon this earth of yours
725
00:48:26,749 --> 00:48:28,624
who lay claim to know us
726
00:48:28,916 --> 00:48:31,707
and who do their deeds
of passion, pride
727
00:48:32,041 --> 00:48:34,707
ill will, hatred, envy
728
00:48:34,999 --> 00:48:38,082
bigotry and selfishness
in our name
729
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:42,916
who are as strange to us
and all our kith and kin
730
00:48:42,999 --> 00:48:44,457
as if they had never lived.
731
00:48:45,624 --> 00:48:46,707
Remember that...
732
00:48:47,332 --> 00:48:49,207
and charge their doings
on themselves...
733
00:48:50,124 --> 00:48:51,291
not us.
734
00:49:02,624 --> 00:49:04,457
I hope Martha
doesn't lose the pennies
735
00:49:04,541 --> 00:49:05,624
she saved for the train!
736
00:49:06,541 --> 00:49:08,416
She mustn't! I'll miss her.
737
00:49:16,999 --> 00:49:18,666
Let's wish she's not too tired
738
00:49:18,749 --> 00:49:20,332
from making all those hats.
739
00:49:21,582 --> 00:49:23,457
All aboard!
740
00:49:29,999 --> 00:49:32,791
Bob had but 15 bob a week.
741
00:49:33,291 --> 00:49:34,999
He pocketed on Saturdays
742
00:49:35,124 --> 00:49:38,416
but 15 copies
of his Christian name
743
00:49:38,999 --> 00:49:42,624
and yet the
Ghost of Christmas Present
744
00:49:42,707 --> 00:49:45,374
blessed his four-roomed house.
745
00:49:46,707 --> 00:49:48,457
Up rose Mrs Cratchit
746
00:49:48,541 --> 00:49:51,832
dressed out but poorly
in a twice-turned gown
747
00:49:51,916 --> 00:49:54,082
but brave in ribbons.
748
00:49:56,082 --> 00:49:58,541
What has ever
got your precious father then?
749
00:49:58,624 --> 00:50:00,207
And your brother, Tiny Tim?
750
00:50:00,374 --> 00:50:03,332
And Martha weren't as late
last Christmas by half an hour.
751
00:50:04,166 --> 00:50:05,457
Here's Martha, Mother!
752
00:50:05,541 --> 00:50:07,874
- Hello, Martha!
- Hello Martha!
753
00:50:08,041 --> 00:50:10,457
Why!
Bless your heart alive, my dear.
754
00:50:10,541 --> 00:50:12,041
How late you are!
755
00:50:12,499 --> 00:50:14,791
We'd a deal of work
to finish up last night
756
00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:17,791
and had to clear away
this morning, Mother.
757
00:50:19,666 --> 00:50:21,249
Don't wake me in the morning.
758
00:50:21,499 --> 00:50:24,457
I hope to lay abed tomorrow,
as it is a holiday!
759
00:50:26,249 --> 00:50:27,457
Well, never mind.
760
00:50:27,541 --> 00:50:29,999
Sit ye down before the fire,
Lord bless ye.
761
00:50:30,374 --> 00:50:32,249
No, no. There's Father coming!
762
00:50:32,332 --> 00:50:33,749
Hide, Martha, hide!
763
00:50:34,832 --> 00:50:36,832
So Martha hid herself
764
00:50:36,916 --> 00:50:38,541
and in came Bob
765
00:50:38,624 --> 00:50:41,416
his threadbare clothes
darned up and brushed
766
00:50:41,499 --> 00:50:42,707
to look seasonable
767
00:50:43,124 --> 00:50:45,749
and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
768
00:50:46,707 --> 00:50:51,124
Alas, for Tiny Tim,
he bore a little crutch
769
00:50:51,624 --> 00:50:55,666
and had his limbs
supported by an iron frame.
770
00:50:56,541 --> 00:50:57,808
Why, where's our Martha?
771
00:50:57,832 --> 00:50:59,666
- Not coming.
- Not coming?
772
00:51:00,207 --> 00:51:02,749
Not coming upon Christmas Day?
773
00:51:03,041 --> 00:51:05,457
Martha didn't like
to see him disappointed
774
00:51:05,541 --> 00:51:09,457
if it were only in joke,
so she ran into his arms.
775
00:51:09,624 --> 00:51:11,124
Happy Christmas, Father!
776
00:51:11,582 --> 00:51:14,624
The two young
Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim
777
00:51:14,707 --> 00:51:16,957
and bore him off
into the washhouse...
778
00:51:17,041 --> 00:51:18,374
You come with us, Tim!
779
00:51:18,707 --> 00:51:21,832
...that he might hear the
pudding singing in the copper.
780
00:51:21,916 --> 00:51:24,124
And how did little Tim behave?
781
00:51:24,207 --> 00:51:25,916
Oh! As good as gold.
782
00:51:26,207 --> 00:51:28,082
As good as gold and better.
783
00:51:29,166 --> 00:51:32,457
Somehow, he gets thoughtful
sitting by himself so much
784
00:51:33,166 --> 00:51:35,041
and thinks the strangest things.
785
00:51:36,249 --> 00:51:39,124
He told me, coming home,
that he hoped the people
786
00:51:39,207 --> 00:51:42,124
saw him in the church,
because he was a cripple
787
00:51:42,832 --> 00:51:46,041
and it might be pleasant to them
to remember upon Christmas Day
788
00:51:46,707 --> 00:51:49,999
who made lame beggars walk,
and blind men see.
789
00:51:51,249 --> 00:51:54,707
Bob's voice was
tremulous when he told them this
790
00:51:55,166 --> 00:51:58,082
and trembled uncertainly
when he said
791
00:51:58,291 --> 00:52:02,374
that Tiny Tim was growing
strong and hearty.
792
00:52:03,082 --> 00:52:06,166
His active little crutch
was heard upon the floor
793
00:52:06,457 --> 00:52:08,291
and back came Tiny Tim
794
00:52:08,374 --> 00:52:10,541
escorted by his
brother and sister
795
00:52:10,666 --> 00:52:12,749
to his stool before the fire.
796
00:52:13,707 --> 00:52:16,957
Master Peter, and the two
ubiquitous young Cratchits
797
00:52:17,041 --> 00:52:18,582
went to fetch the goose
798
00:52:18,749 --> 00:52:22,291
with which they soon returned
in high procession.
799
00:52:22,832 --> 00:52:24,832
Such a bustle ensued
800
00:52:24,916 --> 00:52:29,291
that you might have thought
a goose the rarest of all birds
801
00:52:29,582 --> 00:52:31,582
a feathered phenomenon.
802
00:52:33,041 --> 00:52:37,374
And in truth, it was something
very like it in that house.
803
00:52:37,582 --> 00:52:39,291
I don't believe there was ever
804
00:52:39,374 --> 00:52:42,082
such a goose cooked, my dear!
Wonderful!
805
00:52:42,166 --> 00:52:43,582
Scrum-diddlyumptious!
806
00:52:43,666 --> 00:52:46,124
Its tenderness and flavour
807
00:52:46,291 --> 00:52:48,166
size and cheapness
808
00:52:48,374 --> 00:52:51,124
were the themes
of universal admiration.
809
00:52:51,207 --> 00:52:52,249
Hope there's gravy!
810
00:52:52,332 --> 00:52:55,082
Eked out by apple sauce
and mashed potatoes
811
00:52:55,166 --> 00:52:58,207
it was a sufficient dinner
for the whole family.
812
00:52:58,499 --> 00:53:02,374
Indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said
with great delight
813
00:53:02,499 --> 00:53:06,582
surveying one small atom
of a bone upon the dish
814
00:53:06,749 --> 00:53:09,124
they hadn't ate it all at last.
815
00:53:09,832 --> 00:53:12,582
But now,
the plates being changed.
816
00:53:12,832 --> 00:53:15,624
Mrs Cratchit left the room alone
817
00:53:15,791 --> 00:53:18,166
too nervous to bear witnesses
818
00:53:18,249 --> 00:53:21,166
to take the pudding up
and bring it in.
819
00:53:22,582 --> 00:53:24,666
A great deal of steam!
820
00:53:25,166 --> 00:53:27,416
The pudding was out
of the copper.
821
00:53:27,874 --> 00:53:30,457
A smell like a washing day.
822
00:53:30,832 --> 00:53:31,999
That was the cloth.
823
00:53:32,624 --> 00:53:35,874
A smell like an eating house
and a pastry cook's
824
00:53:35,957 --> 00:53:37,332
next door to each other
825
00:53:37,416 --> 00:53:39,707
with a laundry
next door to that.
826
00:53:40,416 --> 00:53:42,457
Mrs Cratchit entered
827
00:53:42,624 --> 00:53:45,374
flushed but smiling proudly
828
00:53:45,541 --> 00:53:48,832
with the pudding
like a speckled cannon ball.
829
00:53:49,207 --> 00:53:51,832
Everybody had something
to say about it
830
00:53:52,207 --> 00:53:54,707
but nobody said or thought
831
00:53:54,999 --> 00:53:58,416
it was a small pudding
for a large family.
832
00:53:58,707 --> 00:54:02,082
Any Cratchit would have blushed
to hint at such a thing.
833
00:54:03,541 --> 00:54:07,499
Then all the Cratchit family
drew round the hearth.
834
00:54:07,916 --> 00:54:10,749
A merry Christmas
to us all, my dears.
835
00:54:11,374 --> 00:54:12,666
God bless us.
836
00:54:13,166 --> 00:54:15,499
God bless us, every one!
837
00:54:15,707 --> 00:54:18,582
Said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
838
00:54:19,916 --> 00:54:22,207
He sat very close
to his father's side
839
00:54:22,291 --> 00:54:23,457
upon his little stool.
840
00:54:24,374 --> 00:54:27,291
Bob held his withered
little hand in his
841
00:54:27,707 --> 00:54:30,041
as If he loved the child
842
00:54:30,124 --> 00:54:32,749
and wished to keep him
by his side
843
00:54:33,207 --> 00:54:36,999
and dreaded that he might
be taken from him.
844
00:54:38,541 --> 00:54:40,874
Spirit,
tell me if Tiny Tim will live.
845
00:54:42,624 --> 00:54:44,416
I see a vacant seat
846
00:54:45,207 --> 00:54:48,374
and a crutch without an owner,
carefully preserved.
847
00:54:54,249 --> 00:54:56,166
If these shadows remain
unaltered by the future
848
00:54:56,249 --> 00:54:57,249
the child will die.
849
00:54:57,332 --> 00:54:58,999
No, no, kind spirit.
850
00:54:59,082 --> 00:55:01,249
- Say he will be spared.
- If these shadows remain
851
00:55:01,332 --> 00:55:04,416
unaltered by the future,
no other of my race
852
00:55:04,499 --> 00:55:06,874
will find him here.
Well, what then?
853
00:55:07,957 --> 00:55:10,666
If he be like to die,
he had better do it
854
00:55:10,874 --> 00:55:13,249
and decrease
the surplus population.
855
00:55:13,541 --> 00:55:15,541
Scrooge hung his head
856
00:55:15,624 --> 00:55:18,999
to hear his own words
quoted by the spirit.
857
00:55:19,916 --> 00:55:22,999
Man, if man you be in heart
858
00:55:23,082 --> 00:55:26,207
not stone,
forbear that wicked cant
859
00:55:26,291 --> 00:55:29,374
until you have discovered
what the surplus is
860
00:55:29,457 --> 00:55:30,916
and where it is.
861
00:55:31,666 --> 00:55:34,457
Will you decide what men shall
live and what men shall die?
862
00:55:35,082 --> 00:55:37,249
It may be,
that in the sight of Heaven
863
00:55:37,332 --> 00:55:39,416
you are more worthless
and less fit to live
864
00:55:39,499 --> 00:55:42,332
than millions like this
poor man's child. Oh, God!
865
00:55:43,124 --> 00:55:46,541
To hear the insect on the leaf
pronouncing on the too-much-life
866
00:55:46,624 --> 00:55:48,791
among his hungry brothers
in the dust!
867
00:55:50,124 --> 00:55:53,249
Scrooge bent
before the ghost"s rebuke
868
00:55:53,666 --> 00:55:56,749
and trembling, cast his eyes
upon the ground.
869
00:55:57,707 --> 00:56:01,291
But he raised them speedily,
on hearing his own name.
870
00:56:01,374 --> 00:56:02,457
To Scrooge!
871
00:56:02,999 --> 00:56:06,582
I'll give you Mr Scrooge,
the founder of the feast!
872
00:56:06,749 --> 00:56:08,957
The founder of the feast indeed!
873
00:56:09,124 --> 00:56:10,582
I wish I had him here.
874
00:56:10,749 --> 00:56:12,874
I'd give him a piece of my mind
to feast upon
875
00:56:12,957 --> 00:56:15,124
and I hope he'd have
a good appetite for it!
876
00:56:15,249 --> 00:56:16,999
My dear, the children.
877
00:56:17,082 --> 00:56:18,374
Christmas Day!
878
00:56:18,499 --> 00:56:20,308
I'll drink
his health for your sake
879
00:56:20,332 --> 00:56:21,791
and the day's, not for his!
880
00:56:22,416 --> 00:56:24,999
Tiny Tim drank it last of all
881
00:56:25,332 --> 00:56:28,207
but he didn't care
two pence for it.
882
00:56:28,541 --> 00:56:31,666
Scrooge was the ogre
of the family.
883
00:56:33,957 --> 00:56:35,874
They were not a handsome family.
884
00:56:36,124 --> 00:56:37,749
They were not well dressed.
885
00:56:37,957 --> 00:56:40,624
Their shoes were far from
being waterproof
886
00:56:40,832 --> 00:56:42,957
their clothes were scanty
887
00:56:43,082 --> 00:56:46,166
and Bob's might have known,
and very likely did
888
00:56:46,249 --> 00:56:48,416
the inside of a pawnbroker's.
889
00:56:49,166 --> 00:56:51,832
But they were happy, grateful
890
00:56:52,291 --> 00:56:53,624
pleased with one another
891
00:56:54,416 --> 00:56:57,041
and contented all the time.
892
00:56:58,457 --> 00:57:00,499
Scrooge had his eye upon them
893
00:57:00,957 --> 00:57:05,582
and especially on Tiny Tim,
until the last.
894
00:57:11,291 --> 00:57:12,957
It was a long night
895
00:57:13,707 --> 00:57:15,957
if it were only a night.
896
00:57:19,082 --> 00:57:21,374
Not to sea?
897
00:57:21,957 --> 00:57:23,249
To sea?!
898
00:57:23,874 --> 00:57:26,249
To Scrooge's horror,
looking back
899
00:57:26,332 --> 00:57:28,207
he saw the last of the land
900
00:57:28,332 --> 00:57:31,749
and his ears were deafened
by the thundering of water
901
00:57:31,874 --> 00:57:34,041
as it rolled and roared.
902
00:57:34,249 --> 00:57:36,874
Mind yourself, Harry!
Don't drop the turkey!
903
00:57:37,707 --> 00:57:40,374
Built upon
a dismal reef of sunken rocks
904
00:57:40,457 --> 00:57:43,082
on which the waters
chafed and dashed
905
00:57:43,166 --> 00:57:45,499
there stood
a solitary lighthouse...
906
00:57:45,582 --> 00:57:47,291
There's Christmas for you!
907
00:57:47,457 --> 00:57:50,874
...but even here,
every man among them
908
00:57:50,957 --> 00:57:53,166
hummed a Christmas tune!
909
00:57:54,999 --> 00:57:57,082
Again the ghost sped on
910
00:57:57,166 --> 00:57:59,624
above the black
and heaving sea...
911
00:58:02,749 --> 00:58:05,666
...until a light shone
from the window of a house
912
00:58:05,749 --> 00:58:08,249
and swiftly,
they advanced towards it.
913
00:58:12,874 --> 00:58:17,124
It was a great surprise to
Scrooge to hear a hearty laugh.
914
00:58:17,666 --> 00:58:19,832
It was a much greater surprise
to Scrooge
915
00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:22,499
to recognise it
as his own nephew's
916
00:58:22,624 --> 00:58:26,999
and to find himself in a bright,
dry, gleaming room.
917
00:58:28,041 --> 00:58:30,582
Clara, my dear,
what a lovely lunch!
918
00:58:35,749 --> 00:58:39,499
Laughed Fred.
"Ha-ha-ha-ho!"
919
00:58:41,332 --> 00:58:46,332
It is a fair, even-handed,
noble adjustment of things
920
00:58:46,666 --> 00:58:49,832
that while there is infection
in disease and sorrow
921
00:58:49,916 --> 00:58:53,916
there is nothing in the world
So irresistibly contagious
922
00:58:54,041 --> 00:58:56,749
as laughter and good humour.
923
00:58:59,124 --> 00:59:01,457
He said that Christmas
was a humbug!
924
00:59:01,541 --> 00:59:03,124
And he believed it too.
925
00:59:03,707 --> 00:59:06,041
More shame for him, Fred.
926
00:59:06,332 --> 00:59:08,916
He's a comical
old fellow, that's the truth
927
00:59:09,332 --> 00:59:11,666
and not so pleasant
as he might be.
928
00:59:11,791 --> 00:59:14,957
However, his offenses
carry their own punishment
929
00:59:15,041 --> 00:59:16,791
and I have nothing to say
against him.
930
00:59:16,874 --> 00:59:18,666
I'm sure he is very rich.
931
00:59:18,749 --> 00:59:20,916
At least, you always tell me so.
932
00:59:21,416 --> 00:59:23,666
His wealth is of no use to him.
933
00:59:23,832 --> 00:59:25,749
He doesn't make
any good with it.
934
00:59:25,874 --> 00:59:27,957
He doesn't make himself
comfortable with it.
935
00:59:28,249 --> 00:59:30,207
He hasn't the satisfaction
of thinking...
936
00:59:30,332 --> 00:59:31,999
...that he is ever
937
00:59:32,082 --> 00:59:33,999
going to benefit us with it.
938
00:59:34,541 --> 00:59:37,332
I have no patience with him.
939
00:59:37,416 --> 00:59:38,582
Oh, I have.
940
00:59:38,916 --> 00:59:40,249
I'm sorry for him!
941
00:59:40,457 --> 00:59:42,499
Couldn't be angry with him
if I tried.
942
00:59:42,916 --> 00:59:44,749
Who suffers by his ill whims?
943
00:59:44,874 --> 00:59:46,707
Himself, always.
944
00:59:47,041 --> 00:59:49,749
Here, he takes it into his head
to dislike us
945
00:59:49,832 --> 00:59:51,624
and he won't come
and dine with us.
946
00:59:51,707 --> 00:59:53,082
What's the consequence?
947
00:59:53,874 --> 00:59:55,582
He doesn't lose
much of a dinner.
948
00:59:56,332 --> 00:59:57,999
Indeed?
949
00:59:58,416 --> 01:00:01,041
I think he loses
a very good dinner.
950
01:00:03,082 --> 01:00:05,749
Well, I'm very glad to hear it!
951
01:00:05,832 --> 01:00:08,541
Because I haven't great faith
in these young housekeepers.
952
01:00:09,207 --> 01:00:10,624
What do you say, Topper?
953
01:00:10,874 --> 01:00:12,874
Topper had clearly
got his eye on
954
01:00:12,957 --> 01:00:14,082
one of the ladies
955
01:00:14,166 --> 01:00:17,707
for he answered that a bachelor
was a wretched outcast
956
01:00:17,832 --> 01:00:21,207
who had no right to express
an opinion on the subject.
957
01:00:21,832 --> 01:00:24,291
Fred revelled in another laugh
958
01:00:24,624 --> 01:00:27,916
and as it was impossible
to keep the infection off...
959
01:00:30,082 --> 01:00:32,957
A merry Christmas and
a happy New Year to the old man.
960
01:00:33,791 --> 01:00:36,416
He wouldn't take it from me,
but he may have it.
961
01:00:37,041 --> 01:00:40,541
Let us make a toast
to Uncle Scrooge!
962
01:00:52,416 --> 01:00:54,041
Who's for blind man's buff?
963
01:00:54,124 --> 01:00:55,541
Here's a new game!
964
01:00:56,249 --> 01:00:58,457
One half hour, Spirit, only one!
965
01:00:59,207 --> 01:01:01,374
Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly
966
01:01:01,457 --> 01:01:03,791
become so gay and light of heart
967
01:01:03,874 --> 01:01:07,291
that he would have pledged the
unconscious company in return
968
01:01:07,416 --> 01:01:09,707
and thanked them
in an inaudible speech
969
01:01:09,791 --> 01:01:11,707
if the ghost had given him time.
970
01:01:12,332 --> 01:01:16,041
But the whole scene passed off
in the breath of the last word.
971
01:01:22,624 --> 01:01:23,791
Hark.
972
01:01:25,082 --> 01:01:27,082
My life upon this globe
is very brief.
973
01:01:27,416 --> 01:01:29,666
The chimes
were ringing the three quarters
974
01:01:29,749 --> 01:01:31,541
past 11 at that moment.
975
01:01:46,624 --> 01:01:48,374
Please leave me alone.
976
01:01:50,332 --> 01:01:52,052
- Give it here.
- What are you doing?
977
01:01:52,541 --> 01:01:54,041
You want a good time?
978
01:01:57,249 --> 01:01:58,291
You're hurting me!
979
01:01:58,374 --> 01:01:59,934
Come here, my darling.
980
01:02:22,999 --> 01:02:23,999
Go on, hit him!
981
01:02:25,332 --> 01:02:26,332
And again!
982
01:02:37,332 --> 01:02:38,707
Pull your razor, Jim.
983
01:02:51,374 --> 01:02:54,207
Forgive me if I am
not justified in what I ask
984
01:02:54,291 --> 01:02:57,457
but I see something strange,
and not belonging to yourself
985
01:02:57,541 --> 01:02:58,791
protruding from your skirts.
986
01:02:58,874 --> 01:03:01,499
- Is it a foot or a claw?
- It might be a claw
987
01:03:01,582 --> 01:03:03,166
for the flesh there is upon it.
988
01:03:04,207 --> 01:03:05,207
Look here.
989
01:03:06,041 --> 01:03:08,082
From the foldings of its robe
990
01:03:08,207 --> 01:03:09,541
it brought two children.
991
01:03:10,666 --> 01:03:13,957
Wretched, abject, frightful
992
01:03:14,041 --> 01:03:16,249
hideous, miserable.
993
01:03:16,999 --> 01:03:18,832
They knelt down at its feet
994
01:03:19,124 --> 01:03:21,624
and clung upon the outside
of its garment.
995
01:03:21,832 --> 01:03:23,624
Oh, man, look here!
996
01:03:24,416 --> 01:03:25,416
Look!
997
01:03:26,291 --> 01:03:27,624
Look, down here!
998
01:03:28,249 --> 01:03:30,082
They were a boy and a girl.
999
01:03:30,791 --> 01:03:33,791
Yellow, meagre, ragged
1000
01:03:33,999 --> 01:03:36,249
scowling, wolfish...
1001
01:03:37,082 --> 01:03:40,499
but prostrate, too,
in their humility.
1002
01:03:41,457 --> 01:03:43,999
Where angels might have
sat enthroned
1003
01:03:44,124 --> 01:03:47,666
devils lurked,
and glared out menacing.
1004
01:03:48,457 --> 01:03:53,166
No change, no degradation,
no perversion of humanity
1005
01:03:53,374 --> 01:03:57,416
has monsters half so horrible
and dread.
1006
01:03:58,999 --> 01:04:01,457
Scrooge started back, appalled.
1007
01:04:01,999 --> 01:04:04,374
Having them shown to him
in this way
1008
01:04:04,457 --> 01:04:07,666
he tried to say
they were fine children
1009
01:04:07,916 --> 01:04:10,541
but the words choked themselves
1010
01:04:10,624 --> 01:04:14,499
rather than be parties to a lie
of such enormous magnitude.
1011
01:04:15,041 --> 01:04:16,416
Spirit, are they yours?
1012
01:04:16,499 --> 01:04:17,933
They are man's.
1013
01:04:17,957 --> 01:04:20,999
And they cling to me,
appealing from their fathers.
1014
01:04:21,416 --> 01:04:22,707
This boy is Ignorance.
1015
01:04:22,874 --> 01:04:24,207
This girl is Want.
1016
01:04:24,499 --> 01:04:26,416
Beware them both,
and all of their degree
1017
01:04:26,499 --> 01:04:28,291
but most of all,
beware this boy...
1018
01:04:32,541 --> 01:04:35,582
...for on his brow I see that
written which is doom
1019
01:04:36,124 --> 01:04:37,624
unless the writing be erased.
1020
01:04:37,707 --> 01:04:39,541
Have they no refuge or resource?
1021
01:04:39,624 --> 01:04:41,464
Are there no workhouses?
1022
01:04:42,916 --> 01:04:45,124
Are there no prisons?
1023
01:04:54,916 --> 01:04:57,582
The Ghost
of Christmas Yet to Come.
1024
01:05:02,041 --> 01:05:04,582
Scrooge looked about him
for the ghost
1025
01:05:04,666 --> 01:05:06,082
and saw it not.
1026
01:05:06,916 --> 01:05:09,541
As the last stroke
ceased to vibrate
1027
01:05:09,832 --> 01:05:12,666
he remembered the prediction
of old Jacob Marley
1028
01:05:12,999 --> 01:05:16,916
and lifting up his eyes,
beheld a solemn phantom
1029
01:05:17,249 --> 01:05:18,832
draped and hooded
1030
01:05:19,041 --> 01:05:22,874
coming like a mist
along the ground towards him.
1031
01:05:24,291 --> 01:05:29,582
The phantom slowly,
gravely, silently approached.
1032
01:05:30,749 --> 01:05:35,041
When it came,
Scrooge bent down upon his knee.
1033
01:05:36,291 --> 01:05:40,124
It was shrouded
in a deep black garment
1034
01:05:40,291 --> 01:05:44,541
which concealed its head,
its face, its form
1035
01:05:44,874 --> 01:05:49,916
and left nothing of it visible
save one outstretched hand.
1036
01:05:53,124 --> 01:05:54,332
I am in the presence
1037
01:05:54,416 --> 01:05:56,457
of the Ghost of Christmas
Yet To Come?
1038
01:05:56,791 --> 01:05:58,707
The Spirit answered not
1039
01:05:58,791 --> 01:06:01,957
but pointed downward
with its hand.
1040
01:06:02,291 --> 01:06:04,166
You are about
to show me shadows
1041
01:06:04,249 --> 01:06:05,791
of the things
that have not happened
1042
01:06:05,874 --> 01:06:08,582
but will happen
in the time before us.
1043
01:06:09,416 --> 01:06:10,832
Is that so, Spirit?
1044
01:06:12,374 --> 01:06:16,249
Although well used
to ghostly company by this time.
1045
01:06:16,541 --> 01:06:21,166
Scrooge feared the silent shape
so much
1046
01:06:21,457 --> 01:06:24,041
that his legs trembled
beneath him
1047
01:06:24,332 --> 01:06:26,582
and he found
that he could hardly stand
1048
01:06:26,666 --> 01:06:28,499
when he prepared to follow it.
1049
01:06:29,041 --> 01:06:30,624
I fear you...
1050
01:06:31,124 --> 01:06:33,374
more than any spectre
I have seen.
1051
01:06:34,999 --> 01:06:37,332
But as I know your purpose
is to do me good
1052
01:06:37,416 --> 01:06:40,624
and as I hope to live to be
another man from what I was.
1053
01:06:41,624 --> 01:06:43,499
I am prepared
to bear your company
1054
01:06:43,582 --> 01:06:45,666
and do it with a thankful heart.
1055
01:06:47,332 --> 01:06:48,332
Lead on.
1056
01:06:49,999 --> 01:06:51,124
Lead on.
1057
01:06:52,249 --> 01:06:53,749
The night is waning fast...
1058
01:06:54,541 --> 01:06:57,624
and it is precious time to me,
I know.
1059
01:07:33,124 --> 01:07:35,916
They scarcely seemed
to enter the city
1060
01:07:36,124 --> 01:07:38,624
but there they were,
in the heart of it
1061
01:07:38,707 --> 01:07:41,791
amongst the merchants,
who hurried up and down
1062
01:07:41,874 --> 01:07:44,041
and chinked the money
in their pockets
1063
01:07:44,124 --> 01:07:48,374
and conversed in groups,
as Scrooge had seen them often.
1064
01:07:49,291 --> 01:07:52,916
The spirit stopped beside one
little knot of businessmen.
1065
01:07:53,541 --> 01:07:56,499
Observing that the hand
was pointed to them.
1066
01:07:56,582 --> 01:08:00,291
Scrooge advanced
to listen to their talk.
1067
01:08:07,832 --> 01:08:10,457
I don't know much
about it, either way.
1068
01:08:10,666 --> 01:08:12,999
I only know he's dead!
1069
01:08:14,374 --> 01:08:15,791
When did he die?
1070
01:08:16,082 --> 01:08:19,207
Ooh. Last night, I believe.
1071
01:08:19,999 --> 01:08:22,332
Why?
What was the matter with him?
1072
01:08:23,082 --> 01:08:25,582
I thought he'd never die.
1073
01:08:26,541 --> 01:08:27,749
God knows!
1074
01:08:28,791 --> 01:08:30,791
What has he done with his money?
1075
01:08:32,291 --> 01:08:34,291
Well, I haven't heard.
1076
01:08:34,749 --> 01:08:36,916
Left it to his company, perhaps.
1077
01:08:37,666 --> 01:08:41,249
He hasn't left it to me.
That's all I know.
1078
01:08:42,416 --> 01:08:45,999
Well, it's likely to be
a very cheap funeral
1079
01:08:46,332 --> 01:08:50,624
for upon my life, I don't know
of anybody to go to it.
1080
01:08:52,582 --> 01:08:55,666
Suppose we make up a party
and volunteer?
1081
01:08:56,582 --> 01:08:58,416
I don't mind going
1082
01:08:59,041 --> 01:09:01,166
if a lunch is provided
1083
01:09:01,624 --> 01:09:03,457
but I must be fed.
1084
01:09:08,082 --> 01:09:10,791
Scrooge was at first
inclined to be surprised
1085
01:09:10,874 --> 01:09:13,874
that the spirit should attach
importance to conversations
1086
01:09:13,957 --> 01:09:15,499
apparently so trivial
1087
01:09:16,124 --> 01:09:19,291
but feeling assured that they
must have some hidden purpose
1088
01:09:19,457 --> 01:09:22,957
he set himself to consider
what it was likely to be.
1089
01:09:23,749 --> 01:09:27,249
But nothing doubting that
to whomsoever they applied
1090
01:09:27,332 --> 01:09:31,082
they had some latent moral
for his own improvement.
1091
01:09:36,041 --> 01:09:37,749
They left the busy scene
1092
01:09:37,832 --> 01:09:40,207
and went into an obscure
part of the town
1093
01:09:40,291 --> 01:09:42,832
where Scrooge had never
penetrated before.
1094
01:09:42,916 --> 01:09:44,666
You've had the pipe long enough.
1095
01:09:44,749 --> 01:09:45,832
Pass it on.
1096
01:09:45,916 --> 01:09:47,332
The ways were foul...
1097
01:09:48,124 --> 01:09:49,374
Cut your liver out!
1098
01:09:49,832 --> 01:09:52,041
...the shops and houses wretched
1099
01:09:52,207 --> 01:09:54,499
the people half-naked, drunken
1100
01:09:54,666 --> 01:09:56,999
slipshod, ugly.
1101
01:09:57,999 --> 01:10:00,541
Alleys and archways,
like so many cesspools
1102
01:10:00,624 --> 01:10:04,957
disgorged their offenses
of smell and dirt and life
1103
01:10:05,041 --> 01:10:06,707
upon the straggling streets.
1104
01:10:06,791 --> 01:10:08,457
We don't talk to you lot.
1105
01:10:08,791 --> 01:10:11,707
The whole quarter
reeked with crime
1106
01:10:12,166 --> 01:10:14,374
with filth, and misery.
1107
01:10:15,082 --> 01:10:17,666
Far in this den
of infamous resort
1108
01:10:17,749 --> 01:10:19,499
there was a low-browed,
beetling shop
1109
01:10:19,582 --> 01:10:21,374
below a penthouse roof
1110
01:10:21,457 --> 01:10:24,124
where iron, old rags, bottles
1111
01:10:24,207 --> 01:10:27,082
bones and greasy offal
were bought.
1112
01:10:27,666 --> 01:10:31,124
Sitting in among the wares
he dealt in, by a stove
1113
01:10:31,249 --> 01:10:33,499
was a grey-haired rascal
1114
01:10:33,791 --> 01:10:36,582
nearly 70 years of age.
1115
01:10:36,707 --> 01:10:39,749
Scrooge and the phantom came
into the presence of this man.
1116
01:10:39,832 --> 01:10:42,624
Just as a housekeeper
with a heavy bundle
1117
01:10:42,791 --> 01:10:44,374
slunk into the shop.
1118
01:10:45,166 --> 01:10:48,499
Every person has a right
to take care of themselves.
1119
01:10:48,582 --> 01:10:50,249
He always did.
1120
01:10:50,457 --> 01:10:53,416
Who's the worse for the loss
of a few things like these?
1121
01:10:53,582 --> 01:10:55,707
If he wanted to keep 'em
after he was dead
1122
01:10:55,791 --> 01:10:57,624
a wicked old screw
1123
01:10:57,874 --> 01:11:00,166
why wasn't it natural
in his lifetime?
1124
01:11:00,457 --> 01:11:02,624
If it had been,
he's have had somebody
1125
01:11:02,749 --> 01:11:05,666
to look after him
when he was struck with death
1126
01:11:05,874 --> 01:11:10,457
instead of lying gasping
out his last, alone by himself.
1127
01:11:10,624 --> 01:11:13,499
It's the truest ever word
that was spoke.
1128
01:11:13,624 --> 01:11:14,999
It's a judgment on him.
1129
01:11:15,457 --> 01:11:17,297
Open the bundle,
old Joe, and let me know
1130
01:11:17,332 --> 01:11:18,374
the value of it.
1131
01:11:18,457 --> 01:11:20,499
What... what do you call this?
1132
01:11:20,582 --> 01:11:22,791
- Bed-curtains?
- Bed-curtains.
1133
01:11:24,624 --> 01:11:27,124
You don't mean to say
you took 'em down
1134
01:11:27,207 --> 01:11:29,499
rings and all,
with him lying there?
1135
01:11:29,582 --> 01:11:32,166
Yes, I do. Why not?
1136
01:11:32,249 --> 01:11:34,374
You were born
to make your fortune
1137
01:11:34,457 --> 01:11:36,374
and you'll certainly do it.
1138
01:11:37,916 --> 01:11:40,791
You may look through
that shirt till your eyes ache
1139
01:11:40,874 --> 01:11:44,332
but you won't find a hole in it,
nor a threadbare place.
1140
01:11:44,874 --> 01:11:47,624
It's the best he had,
and a fine one too.
1141
01:11:47,707 --> 01:11:49,916
They'd have wasted it,
if it hadn't been for me.
1142
01:11:49,999 --> 01:11:52,874
W...
What do you mean, wasting of it?
1143
01:11:52,957 --> 01:11:56,041
Putting it on him
to be buried in, to be sure!
1144
01:11:56,499 --> 01:12:00,291
Somebody was fool enough to
do it, but I took it off again.
1145
01:12:01,332 --> 01:12:04,082
Oh, this is the end of it,
you see.
1146
01:12:04,332 --> 01:12:07,249
He frightened everyone away
from him when he was alive
1147
01:12:07,332 --> 01:12:10,791
to profit us when he was dead!
1148
01:12:14,207 --> 01:12:16,291
If there is
any person in the town
1149
01:12:16,374 --> 01:12:18,791
who feels emotion
caused by this man's death
1150
01:12:19,166 --> 01:12:22,916
show that person to me, Spirit,
I beseech you.
1151
01:12:31,791 --> 01:12:36,291
# Good people, all #
1152
01:12:36,749 --> 01:12:41,249
# This Christmas time #
1153
01:12:47,374 --> 01:12:49,624
She's worried
to death by it all.
1154
01:12:50,374 --> 01:12:53,332
But they had to borrow,
for the kiddies.
1155
01:12:56,166 --> 01:12:59,124
The phantom
spread its dark robe before him
1156
01:12:59,207 --> 01:13:00,874
for a moment, like a wing
1157
01:13:00,957 --> 01:13:04,499
and withdrawing It,
revealed a room by daylight
1158
01:13:04,666 --> 01:13:06,916
where a mother
and her children were.
1159
01:13:12,999 --> 01:13:16,541
She was expecting someone,
and with anxious eagerness
1160
01:13:16,624 --> 01:13:18,416
for she walked
up and down the room
1161
01:13:18,499 --> 01:13:21,166
started at every sound,
looked out from the window
1162
01:13:21,249 --> 01:13:22,666
glanced at the clock.
1163
01:13:23,832 --> 01:13:26,791
At length, the long-expected
knock was heard.
1164
01:13:26,916 --> 01:13:29,582
She hurried to the door,
and met her husband
1165
01:13:29,666 --> 01:13:32,624
a man whose face
was careworn and depressed
1166
01:13:32,707 --> 01:13:34,124
though he was young.
1167
01:13:34,541 --> 01:13:37,582
There was a remarkable
expression in it now
1168
01:13:37,666 --> 01:13:42,416
a kind of serious delight,
of which he felt ashamed
1169
01:13:42,624 --> 01:13:45,374
and which he struggled
to repress.
1170
01:13:46,916 --> 01:13:48,416
Is it good or bad?
1171
01:13:49,166 --> 01:13:50,249
Bad.
1172
01:13:51,416 --> 01:13:53,332
We are quite ruined.
1173
01:13:54,374 --> 01:13:55,416
No.
1174
01:13:55,582 --> 01:13:57,249
There is hope yet, Caroline.
1175
01:13:58,624 --> 01:14:00,416
If he relents, there is.
1176
01:14:01,249 --> 01:14:02,999
Nothing is past hope
1177
01:14:03,332 --> 01:14:05,416
if such a miracle has happened.
1178
01:14:06,457 --> 01:14:07,999
He is past relenting.
1179
01:14:09,166 --> 01:14:10,291
He is dead.
1180
01:14:10,582 --> 01:14:13,082
She was a mild
and patient creature
1181
01:14:13,166 --> 01:14:15,041
if her face spoke truth
1182
01:14:15,457 --> 01:14:19,582
but she was thankful in her soul
to hear it
1183
01:14:19,666 --> 01:14:22,499
and she said so,
with clasped hands.
1184
01:14:23,207 --> 01:14:25,874
She prayed forgiveness
the next moment
1185
01:14:26,666 --> 01:14:27,916
and was sorry.
1186
01:14:28,332 --> 01:14:30,624
To whom shall
our debt be transferred?
1187
01:14:32,041 --> 01:14:33,082
I don't know.
1188
01:14:33,707 --> 01:14:36,457
But before that time,
we shall be ready with the money
1189
01:14:36,832 --> 01:14:39,832
and even though we were not,
it would be bad fortune indeed
1190
01:14:39,916 --> 01:14:42,707
to find so merciless a creditor
in his successor.
1191
01:14:44,374 --> 01:14:46,791
We shall sleep tonight
with light hearts, Caroline.
1192
01:15:08,416 --> 01:15:10,041
Let me see some tenderness
1193
01:15:10,124 --> 01:15:11,332
connected with the death.
1194
01:15:20,249 --> 01:15:22,624
They entered poor
Bob Cratchit's house
1195
01:15:22,707 --> 01:15:25,999
and found the mother and the
children seated round the fire.
1196
01:15:26,457 --> 01:15:28,832
Quiet. Very quiet.
1197
01:15:29,374 --> 01:15:32,707
The noisy little Cratchits
were as still as statues
1198
01:15:32,791 --> 01:15:33,874
in one corner.
1199
01:15:42,666 --> 01:15:44,957
The mother laid her work
upon the table
1200
01:15:45,249 --> 01:15:47,749
and put her hand up to her face.
1201
01:15:48,041 --> 01:15:49,666
Colour hurts my eyes.
1202
01:15:50,624 --> 01:15:52,916
It makes them weak
by candlelight
1203
01:15:53,499 --> 01:15:55,499
and I wouldn't show weak eyes
to your father
1204
01:15:55,582 --> 01:15:57,291
when he comes home,
for the world.
1205
01:15:58,749 --> 01:16:00,457
It must be near his time.
1206
01:16:00,666 --> 01:16:01,916
Past it, rather.
1207
01:16:02,416 --> 01:16:05,082
But I think he's walked
a little slower than he used
1208
01:16:05,166 --> 01:16:07,207
these few last evenings, Mother.
1209
01:16:07,874 --> 01:16:10,124
I have known him
walk with Tiny Tim
1210
01:16:10,207 --> 01:16:12,499
upon his shoulder,
very fast indeed.
1211
01:16:12,832 --> 01:16:14,666
And so have I. Often.
1212
01:16:14,749 --> 01:16:16,207
His father loved him so
1213
01:16:16,291 --> 01:16:17,624
that it was no trouble...
1214
01:16:18,124 --> 01:16:20,916
Ah! And there is your father
at the door!
1215
01:16:24,041 --> 01:16:26,582
Two young Cratchits
got upon his knees
1216
01:16:26,749 --> 01:16:28,874
and laid each child
a little cheek
1217
01:16:28,957 --> 01:16:30,291
against his face.
1218
01:16:30,582 --> 01:16:32,082
Don't mind it, Father.
1219
01:16:32,416 --> 01:16:34,082
Don't be grieved.
1220
01:16:36,207 --> 01:16:38,082
Bob was very cheerful with them
1221
01:16:38,166 --> 01:16:40,374
and spoke pleasantly
to all the family.
1222
01:16:40,999 --> 01:16:43,207
He looked at the work
upon the table
1223
01:16:43,791 --> 01:16:46,791
the shroud that would
clothe his son
1224
01:16:47,416 --> 01:16:50,124
and praised the industry
and speed
1225
01:16:50,207 --> 01:16:52,332
of Mrs Cratchit and the girls.
1226
01:16:53,374 --> 01:16:57,166
"They would be done
long before Sunday," he said.
1227
01:16:57,791 --> 01:16:59,791
You went today then, Robert?
1228
01:17:00,124 --> 01:17:01,291
Yes, my dear.
1229
01:17:02,957 --> 01:17:04,374
I wish you could have gone.
1230
01:17:04,749 --> 01:17:06,999
It would've done you good
to see how green a place it is
1231
01:17:07,082 --> 01:17:08,124
where he will lay.
1232
01:17:09,624 --> 01:17:11,082
But you'll see it often.
1233
01:17:12,832 --> 01:17:14,082
I promised him...
1234
01:17:15,041 --> 01:17:17,082
that I would walk there
on a Sunday.
1235
01:17:17,624 --> 01:17:19,791
He broke down all at once.
1236
01:17:20,291 --> 01:17:21,666
He couldn't help it.
1237
01:17:34,249 --> 01:17:37,249
He left the room, and went
upstairs to the room above
1238
01:17:37,374 --> 01:17:40,624
which was lighted cheerfully,
and hung with Christmas.
1239
01:17:48,832 --> 01:17:51,707
There was a chair set close
beside the child
1240
01:17:52,041 --> 01:17:55,041
and there were signs of someone
having been there lately.
1241
01:17:56,291 --> 01:17:58,499
Poor Bob sat down in it
1242
01:17:59,207 --> 01:18:02,874
and when he had thought a little
and composed himself
1243
01:18:03,624 --> 01:18:05,457
he kissed the little face.
1244
01:18:07,749 --> 01:18:10,082
My little, little child...
1245
01:18:11,707 --> 01:18:13,541
My little child.
1246
01:18:29,666 --> 01:18:32,041
They drew
about the fire, and talked
1247
01:18:32,166 --> 01:18:34,457
the girls and mother
working still.
1248
01:18:35,291 --> 01:18:38,124
Bob told them
of the extraordinary kindness
1249
01:18:38,249 --> 01:18:41,666
of Mr Fred, whom he had
scarcely seen but once
1250
01:18:41,749 --> 01:18:44,957
and who, meeting him
in the street that day
1251
01:18:45,874 --> 01:18:48,457
and seeing that he looked
a little subdued
1252
01:18:48,874 --> 01:18:50,291
asked after him.
1253
01:18:51,374 --> 01:18:53,166
Just a little down, you know.
1254
01:18:54,249 --> 01:18:57,999
On which, for he is the
pleasantest-spoken gentleman
1255
01:18:58,082 --> 01:18:59,166
you ever heard...
1256
01:18:59,707 --> 01:19:01,499
What has happened
to distress you?
1257
01:19:04,291 --> 01:19:05,416
I told him.
1258
01:19:07,666 --> 01:19:10,374
"I am heartily sorry for it,
Mr Cratchit
1259
01:19:10,582 --> 01:19:13,666
and heartily sorry
for your good wife.
1260
01:19:18,041 --> 01:19:20,582
If I can be of service
to you in any way," he said
1261
01:19:20,666 --> 01:19:23,249
giving me his card,
"That's where I live.
1262
01:19:24,332 --> 01:19:25,624
Pray, come to me."
1263
01:19:36,791 --> 01:19:40,416
Now, it really seemed as if
he had known our Tiny Tim
1264
01:19:40,707 --> 01:19:41,999
and felt with us.
1265
01:19:43,416 --> 01:19:46,041
I shouldn't be at all surprised,
mark what I say
1266
01:19:46,332 --> 01:19:48,916
if he got Peter
a better situation.
1267
01:19:49,082 --> 01:19:51,541
Oh! Only hear that, Peter!
1268
01:19:51,791 --> 01:19:53,416
But however and whenever
1269
01:19:53,499 --> 01:19:54,957
we part from one another
1270
01:19:55,041 --> 01:19:59,624
I am sure, we shall none of us
forget poor Tiny Tim, shall we?
1271
01:20:00,374 --> 01:20:02,999
Or this first parting
that there was among us.
1272
01:20:03,082 --> 01:20:04,291
No, Father.
1273
01:20:04,416 --> 01:20:05,916
And I know, my dears
1274
01:20:05,999 --> 01:20:09,332
that when we recollect how
patient and how mild he was
1275
01:20:09,416 --> 01:20:11,082
although he was a little...
1276
01:20:12,207 --> 01:20:13,541
little child...
1277
01:20:14,082 --> 01:20:16,582
we shall not quarrel
easily among ourselves
1278
01:20:16,666 --> 01:20:20,082
and forget poor Tiny Tim
in doing it.
1279
01:20:20,416 --> 01:20:21,707
No, never, Father.
1280
01:20:21,999 --> 01:20:23,541
I am very happy.
1281
01:20:25,457 --> 01:20:27,124
I am very happy.
1282
01:20:35,957 --> 01:20:37,749
Spectre, something informs me
1283
01:20:37,832 --> 01:20:39,791
that our parting moment
is at hand.
1284
01:20:40,791 --> 01:20:42,749
I know it, but I know not how.
1285
01:20:45,541 --> 01:20:48,749
Tell me what man that was
1286
01:20:48,832 --> 01:20:50,291
whom we saw lying dead.
1287
01:21:06,541 --> 01:21:08,499
The spirit
stood among the graves
1288
01:21:08,666 --> 01:21:10,666
and pointed down to one.
1289
01:21:11,624 --> 01:21:15,541
Scrooge advanced towards it,
trembling.
1290
01:21:16,374 --> 01:21:18,249
Before I draw nearer
to that stone
1291
01:21:18,332 --> 01:21:20,582
to which you point,
answer me one question.
1292
01:21:21,249 --> 01:21:23,791
Are these the shadows
of the things that will be
1293
01:21:23,874 --> 01:21:26,957
or are they shadows of things
that may be, only?
1294
01:21:27,416 --> 01:21:30,374
Still the ghost
pointed downward to the grave
1295
01:21:30,457 --> 01:21:31,791
by which it stood.
1296
01:21:31,874 --> 01:21:34,207
Men's courses
will foreshadow certain ends
1297
01:21:34,291 --> 01:21:36,499
to which, if persevered in,
they must lead
1298
01:21:36,624 --> 01:21:38,957
but if the courses
be departed from
1299
01:21:39,166 --> 01:21:40,749
the ends will change.
1300
01:21:40,957 --> 01:21:43,499
Say it is thus
with what you show me.
1301
01:21:44,666 --> 01:21:47,166
The spirit
was immovable as ever.
1302
01:21:47,916 --> 01:21:51,666
Scrooge crept towards it,
trembling as he went.
1303
01:21:52,416 --> 01:21:54,707
Am I that man
who lay upon the bed?
1304
01:21:55,874 --> 01:21:57,416
Following the finger
1305
01:21:57,499 --> 01:22:00,791
read upon the stone
of the neglected grave
1306
01:22:01,166 --> 01:22:02,791
his own name...
1307
01:22:04,124 --> 01:22:06,874
Ebenezer Scrooge.
1308
01:22:18,874 --> 01:22:22,166
I hope he didn't die
of anything catching!
1309
01:22:25,832 --> 01:22:27,249
We are quite ruined.
1310
01:22:29,749 --> 01:22:32,166
The finger pointed
from the grave
1311
01:22:32,249 --> 01:22:34,874
to him and back again.
1312
01:22:36,332 --> 01:22:37,999
No, Spirit! No...
1313
01:22:39,666 --> 01:22:40,666
No!
1314
01:22:41,249 --> 01:22:44,207
Spirit, hear me.
I am not the man I was.
1315
01:22:46,041 --> 01:22:49,041
Why show me this,
if I am past all hope?
1316
01:22:49,332 --> 01:22:52,791
Good Spirit, assure me that
I yet may change these shadows
1317
01:22:52,874 --> 01:22:55,082
that you have shown me,
by an altered life.
1318
01:22:55,166 --> 01:22:57,207
I will honour Christmas
in my heart
1319
01:22:57,291 --> 01:22:58,874
and try to keep it all year.
1320
01:22:58,957 --> 01:23:01,666
I will live in the past,
the present, and the future.
1321
01:23:01,791 --> 01:23:05,374
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.
1322
01:23:05,457 --> 01:23:08,249
I will not shut out the lessons
that they teach.
1323
01:23:10,374 --> 01:23:13,374
Tell me I may sponge away
the writing on this stone!
1324
01:23:14,207 --> 01:23:17,582
In his agony,
he clasped the spectral body.
1325
01:23:17,916 --> 01:23:19,332
It sought to free itself
1326
01:23:19,416 --> 01:23:22,249
but he was strong in
his entreaty, and detained it.
1327
01:23:22,624 --> 01:23:25,582
The spirit, stronger yet,
repulsed him.
1328
01:23:25,999 --> 01:23:30,541
Holding up his hands in a last
prayer to have his fate reversed
1329
01:23:31,082 --> 01:23:33,624
he saw an alteration
in the phantom's hood.
1330
01:23:33,749 --> 01:23:36,291
It shrank, and collapsed
1331
01:23:36,374 --> 01:23:38,457
down into a bedpost.
1332
01:23:45,874 --> 01:23:48,291
Live in the past,
the present, and the future.
1333
01:23:48,374 --> 01:23:51,332
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.
1334
01:23:51,416 --> 01:23:54,041
I will not shut out
the lessons that they teach!
1335
01:23:57,416 --> 01:23:58,666
Oh, Jacob Marley!
1336
01:23:59,457 --> 01:24:01,874
Heaven, and the Christmastime
be praised for this.
1337
01:24:02,374 --> 01:24:05,374
I shall kneel, old Jacob,
on my knees.
1338
01:24:08,207 --> 01:24:09,707
They are not torn down.
1339
01:24:10,916 --> 01:24:12,374
They are not torn down!
1340
01:24:13,666 --> 01:24:16,207
Rings and all. They are here...
1341
01:24:17,957 --> 01:24:19,124
I am here!
1342
01:24:19,957 --> 01:24:22,166
The shadows of the things
that would have been
1343
01:24:22,249 --> 01:24:23,541
may be dispelled.
1344
01:24:23,666 --> 01:24:24,666
They will be!
1345
01:24:25,124 --> 01:24:26,291
I know they will.
1346
01:24:35,999 --> 01:24:37,416
I don't know what to do!
1347
01:24:38,749 --> 01:24:41,916
I am as... light as a feather!
1348
01:24:42,207 --> 01:24:43,874
I am as happy as an angel!
1349
01:24:44,082 --> 01:24:47,999
I am as merry as a schoolboy,
I am as giddy as a drunken man!
1350
01:24:48,957 --> 01:24:51,166
A merry Christmas to everyone!
1351
01:24:52,374 --> 01:24:55,457
A happy New Year
to all the world!
1352
01:24:56,791 --> 01:24:57,957
Hello there!
1353
01:25:00,124 --> 01:25:02,041
There's the saucepan
that the gruel was in!
1354
01:25:02,124 --> 01:25:04,707
There's the corner the Ghost
of Christmas Present sat.
1355
01:25:04,791 --> 01:25:07,791
There's the window where
I saw the wandering spirits!
1356
01:25:07,916 --> 01:25:10,916
It's all right, it's all true.
It all happened!
1357
01:25:14,916 --> 01:25:16,666
I don't know
what day of the month it is
1358
01:25:16,749 --> 01:25:18,791
I don't know how long
I've been among the spirits.
1359
01:25:18,916 --> 01:25:19,957
I don't know anything!
1360
01:25:20,749 --> 01:25:22,874
I'm... quite a baby.
1361
01:25:24,249 --> 01:25:25,999
Never mind. I don't care!
1362
01:25:26,999 --> 01:25:28,499
I'd rather be a baby!
1363
01:25:29,707 --> 01:25:31,374
Hello, whoop!
1364
01:25:31,582 --> 01:25:32,707
Hello there!
1365
01:25:33,541 --> 01:25:35,499
Running
to the window, he opened it
1366
01:25:35,582 --> 01:25:36,957
and put out his head.
1367
01:25:37,166 --> 01:25:39,332
No fog, no mist.
1368
01:25:39,457 --> 01:25:43,249
Clear, bright, sweet, fresh air!
1369
01:25:43,332 --> 01:25:46,916
Merry bells. Oh, glorious!
1370
01:25:47,291 --> 01:25:48,707
Glorious!
1371
01:25:49,041 --> 01:25:50,707
What's today, my fine fellow?
1372
01:25:50,791 --> 01:25:52,499
Today? Why, Christmas Day.
1373
01:25:52,791 --> 01:25:55,541
It's Christmas Day!
I haven't missed it.
1374
01:25:56,041 --> 01:25:57,791
The spirits have done it
all in one night!
1375
01:25:57,874 --> 01:25:59,683
They can do anything they like,
of course they can.
1376
01:25:59,707 --> 01:26:02,291
Of course they can...
Hello, my fine fellow!
1377
01:26:02,374 --> 01:26:04,791
Do you know the poulterer's,
in the next street but one?
1378
01:26:04,916 --> 01:26:06,291
I should hope I did.
1379
01:26:06,832 --> 01:26:09,124
An intelligent boy!
A remarkable boy!
1380
01:26:09,374 --> 01:26:11,332
Do you know whether
they've sold the prize turkey
1381
01:26:11,416 --> 01:26:12,541
that was hanging up there?
1382
01:26:12,624 --> 01:26:14,332
Not the little prize turkey.
The big one?
1383
01:26:14,416 --> 01:26:15,416
What...
1384
01:26:15,457 --> 01:26:17,374
- The one as big as me?
- What a delightful boy!
1385
01:26:17,457 --> 01:26:18,791
It's a pleasure to talk to him.
1386
01:26:18,916 --> 01:26:19,957
Yes, my buck!
1387
01:26:20,041 --> 01:26:21,999
- It's hanging there now.
- Is it?
1388
01:26:22,082 --> 01:26:23,082
Go and buy it.
1389
01:26:23,124 --> 01:26:24,124
Walker!
1390
01:26:24,166 --> 01:26:25,392
No, no, I am in earnest.
1391
01:26:25,416 --> 01:26:27,666
Go and buy it,
and tell them to bring it here
1392
01:26:27,749 --> 01:26:29,874
that I may give them
the direction where to take it.
1393
01:26:29,957 --> 01:26:31,975
Come back with the man,
and I'll give you a shilling.
1394
01:26:31,999 --> 01:26:34,166
Come back with him
in less than five minutes
1395
01:26:34,291 --> 01:26:35,582
and I'll give you half a crown.
1396
01:26:38,082 --> 01:26:39,624
I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!
1397
01:26:40,249 --> 01:26:41,791
He shan't know who sends it.
1398
01:26:47,957 --> 01:26:49,957
It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
1399
01:27:03,874 --> 01:27:06,832
He dressed himself
all in his best
1400
01:27:06,999 --> 01:27:09,791
and at last,
got out into the streets.
1401
01:27:10,832 --> 01:27:13,707
He had not gone far,
when coming on towards him
1402
01:27:13,791 --> 01:27:15,082
he beheld the gentlemen
1403
01:27:15,166 --> 01:27:17,874
who had accosted him
the day before, and said.
1404
01:27:17,957 --> 01:27:20,082
“Scrooge and Marley's,
I believe."
1405
01:27:21,082 --> 01:27:22,666
Dear sir, how do you do?
1406
01:27:22,791 --> 01:27:24,582
I hope you succeeded yesterday?
1407
01:27:24,916 --> 01:27:26,041
Mr Scrooge?
1408
01:27:26,124 --> 01:27:27,249
That is my name
1409
01:27:27,332 --> 01:27:29,249
and I fear it may not be
pleasant to you.
1410
01:27:29,582 --> 01:27:31,291
Allow me to ask your pardon.
1411
01:27:31,624 --> 01:27:33,457
And will you have
the goodness...
1412
01:27:35,374 --> 01:27:36,582
Lord bless me!
1413
01:27:37,249 --> 01:27:39,041
My dear Mr Scrooge,
are you serious?
1414
01:27:39,124 --> 01:27:40,844
If you please,
not a farthing less.
1415
01:27:40,916 --> 01:27:43,541
A great many back-payments are
included in it, I assure you.
1416
01:27:43,916 --> 01:27:45,249
Will you do me that favour?
1417
01:27:45,332 --> 01:27:47,916
I don't know what to say
to such munificence!
1418
01:27:47,999 --> 01:27:50,374
Don't say anything.
Please, come and see me.
1419
01:27:50,499 --> 01:27:51,791
Will you come and see me?
1420
01:27:51,874 --> 01:27:52,874
We will!
1421
01:27:53,041 --> 01:27:55,541
Thank you.
I am much obliged to you.
1422
01:27:55,624 --> 01:27:57,916
I thank you 50 times. Bless you!
1423
01:27:59,082 --> 01:28:01,874
The people were,
by this time, pouring forth
1424
01:28:01,957 --> 01:28:04,666
as he had seen them with
the Ghost of Christmas Present.
1425
01:28:05,749 --> 01:28:07,499
He walked about the streets
1426
01:28:07,624 --> 01:28:10,124
and watched the people
hurrying to and fro
1427
01:28:10,332 --> 01:28:14,249
and patted children on the head,
and questioned beggars
1428
01:28:14,499 --> 01:28:17,207
and looked down
into the kitchens of houses
1429
01:28:17,291 --> 01:28:18,999
and up to the windows
1430
01:28:19,166 --> 01:28:23,166
and found that everything
could yield him pleasure.
1431
01:28:30,957 --> 01:28:33,749
He had never dreamed
that any walk
1432
01:28:33,832 --> 01:28:34,957
that anything...
1433
01:28:35,291 --> 01:28:38,457
could give him
so much happiness.
1434
01:28:48,416 --> 01:28:50,541
In the afternoon,
he turned his steps
1435
01:28:50,624 --> 01:28:52,332
towards his nephew's house.
1436
01:28:54,249 --> 01:28:56,291
He passed the door
a dozen times
1437
01:28:56,374 --> 01:28:58,832
before he had the courage
to go up and knock.
1438
01:28:59,374 --> 01:29:01,791
But he made a dash, and did it.
1439
01:29:06,749 --> 01:29:10,666
He opened the door gently,
and sidled his face in.
1440
01:29:16,291 --> 01:29:18,082
They were looking at the table
1441
01:29:18,416 --> 01:29:20,874
which was spread out
in great array
1442
01:29:21,416 --> 01:29:25,291
for these young housekeepers are
always nervous on such points
1443
01:29:25,374 --> 01:29:28,041
and like to see
that everything is right.
1444
01:29:28,874 --> 01:29:30,332
Why, bless my soul!
1445
01:29:30,916 --> 01:29:31,916
Who's that?
1446
01:29:32,957 --> 01:29:34,041
It's.. I.
1447
01:29:34,207 --> 01:29:35,499
Uncle Scrooge.
1448
01:29:36,166 --> 01:29:37,332
I've come to dinner.
1449
01:29:38,041 --> 01:29:39,416
Will you let me in, Fred?
1450
01:29:42,291 --> 01:29:43,832
Let him in?
1451
01:29:44,207 --> 01:29:47,499
It is a mercy
he didn't shake his arm off!
1452
01:29:47,791 --> 01:29:50,499
He was at home in five minutes.
1453
01:29:50,666 --> 01:29:52,541
Nothing could be heartier.
1454
01:29:53,082 --> 01:29:55,541
Fred's wife
looked just the same.
1455
01:29:55,916 --> 01:29:57,666
So did Topper when he came.
1456
01:29:57,874 --> 01:30:00,291
So did the plump lady when
she came.
1457
01:30:00,457 --> 01:30:03,291
So did everyone when they came!
1458
01:30:03,707 --> 01:30:06,207
Wonderful parity,
wonderful games
1459
01:30:06,291 --> 01:30:08,124
wonderful unanimity
1460
01:30:08,374 --> 01:30:11,374
wonderful happiness!
1461
01:30:25,707 --> 01:30:28,124
But he was early at the office
next morning.
1462
01:30:28,249 --> 01:30:30,416
Oh, he was early there.
1463
01:30:30,916 --> 01:30:33,291
If he could only be there first
1464
01:30:33,457 --> 01:30:35,916
and catch Bob Cratchit
coming late!
1465
01:30:36,166 --> 01:30:38,749
That was the thing
he'd set his heart upon.
1466
01:30:38,874 --> 01:30:41,832
And he did it! Yes, he did.
1467
01:30:42,207 --> 01:30:43,916
The clock struck nine...
1468
01:30:44,416 --> 01:30:45,499
No Bob.
1469
01:30:45,832 --> 01:30:47,374
A quarter past...
1470
01:30:47,874 --> 01:30:48,957
No Bob.
1471
01:30:49,124 --> 01:30:52,124
He was a full 18 minutes
and a half
1472
01:30:52,207 --> 01:30:53,624
behind his time.
1473
01:30:53,999 --> 01:30:56,291
Scrooge sat with his door
wide open
1474
01:30:56,374 --> 01:30:58,291
that he might see him enter.
1475
01:30:58,666 --> 01:31:00,916
His hat was off
before he opened the door
1476
01:31:01,041 --> 01:31:02,332
his comforter too.
1477
01:31:02,457 --> 01:31:05,874
He was on his stool in a jiffy,
driving away with his pen
1478
01:31:05,999 --> 01:31:08,666
as if he were trying
to overtake nine o 'clock.
1479
01:31:09,166 --> 01:31:10,207
Hello.
1480
01:31:10,582 --> 01:31:12,666
What do you mean by coming here
at this time of day?
1481
01:31:12,749 --> 01:31:14,683
I'm very sorry, sir.
I am behind my time.
1482
01:31:14,707 --> 01:31:17,082
You are. Yes, I think you are.
1483
01:31:17,582 --> 01:31:18,999
Step this way, if you please.
1484
01:31:19,124 --> 01:31:20,832
I-It's only once a year, sir.
1485
01:31:20,916 --> 01:31:22,124
It shall not be repeated.
1486
01:31:22,207 --> 01:31:24,457
I was making rather merry
yesterday, sir.
1487
01:31:24,541 --> 01:31:26,142
Now,
I'll tell you what, my friend
1488
01:31:26,166 --> 01:31:28,058
I'm not going to stand
this sort of thing any longer
1489
01:31:28,082 --> 01:31:29,166
and therefore...
1490
01:31:30,624 --> 01:31:33,749
And therefore,
I am about to raise your salary.
1491
01:31:34,332 --> 01:31:35,499
Bob trembled
1492
01:31:35,582 --> 01:31:37,499
and got a little nearer
to the poker.
1493
01:31:37,749 --> 01:31:40,916
He had a momentary idea of
knocking Scrooge down with it
1494
01:31:40,999 --> 01:31:43,916
holding him, and calling to
the people in the court for help
1495
01:31:43,999 --> 01:31:45,332
and a strait-waistcoat.
1496
01:31:45,707 --> 01:31:47,082
A merry Christmas, Bob.
1497
01:31:47,707 --> 01:31:50,416
A merrier Christmas, Bob,
my good fellow
1498
01:31:50,499 --> 01:31:52,249
than I have given you
for many a year.
1499
01:31:52,374 --> 01:31:53,791
I'll raise your salary
1500
01:31:53,874 --> 01:31:55,957
and endeavour to assist
your struggling family
1501
01:31:56,041 --> 01:31:58,791
and we will discuss your affairs
this very afternoon
1502
01:31:58,874 --> 01:32:01,541
over a Christmas bowl
of smoking bishop, Bob!
1503
01:32:02,707 --> 01:32:04,916
Make up the fires,
buy another coalscuttle
1504
01:32:04,999 --> 01:32:07,707
before you dot another "I"
Bob Cratchit!
1505
01:32:17,124 --> 01:32:19,999
Scrooge was as good as his word.
1506
01:32:20,166 --> 01:32:23,666
He did it all,
and infinitely more.
1507
01:32:24,124 --> 01:32:27,124
And to Tiny Tim,
who did not die
1508
01:32:27,416 --> 01:32:29,291
he was a second father.
1509
01:32:29,832 --> 01:32:33,832
He became as good a friend
1510
01:32:34,332 --> 01:32:35,874
as good a master
1511
01:32:36,082 --> 01:32:38,457
and as good a man
1512
01:32:38,916 --> 01:32:40,791
as the good old city knew
1513
01:32:40,874 --> 01:32:43,707
or any other good old city,
town or borough
1514
01:32:43,791 --> 01:32:45,957
in the good old world.
1515
01:32:47,291 --> 01:32:51,541
Some people laughed to see
the transformation in him
1516
01:32:52,249 --> 01:32:54,666
but he let them laugh,
and heeded them little
1517
01:32:54,749 --> 01:32:56,832
for he was wise enough to know
1518
01:32:57,082 --> 01:33:00,916
that nothing ever happened
on the globe, for good
1519
01:33:01,166 --> 01:33:02,707
at which some people
1520
01:33:02,874 --> 01:33:06,541
had not had their fill
of laughter at the outset
1521
01:33:07,249 --> 01:33:10,457
and since he knew
such as these were blind anyway
1522
01:33:10,541 --> 01:33:12,808
he thought it just as well that
their eyes should wrinkle up
1523
01:33:12,832 --> 01:33:16,374
in laughter, as have the malady
in less attractive forms.
1524
01:33:18,582 --> 01:33:22,207
He had no further intercourse
with spirits
1525
01:33:22,582 --> 01:33:26,791
but lived life according to
the Total Abstinence Principle
1526
01:33:26,916 --> 01:33:28,249
ever after.
1527
01:33:30,707 --> 01:33:32,207
And it was said of him
1528
01:33:32,707 --> 01:33:36,374
that he knew how to keep
Christmas well
1529
01:33:36,457 --> 01:33:39,291
if any man in the world
had such knowledge.
1530
01:33:40,499 --> 01:33:42,582
Let that be truly said of us
1531
01:33:42,999 --> 01:33:44,707
and all of us.
1532
01:33:46,207 --> 01:33:47,957
And, as Tiny Tim observed...
1533
01:33:49,207 --> 01:33:51,999
"God bless us, every one."
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