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Indistinct crowd chati'er

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church bell tolls

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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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Girl 1: What are the people
in the picture?

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Girl 2: They're in prison.

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Girl 1: They look sad.

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Say we're nearly ready.

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Indistinct children's voices

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Man: 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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Lights clunk

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Narrator: 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,
co vetous 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 so/ita/y 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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Door slams

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church bell chimes
— indistinct chati'er

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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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Fred: A merry Christmas, uncle!

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Narrator:
Cried a cheen'u/ voice.

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God save you!

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Narrator: 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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Scrooge: Bah, humbug!

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Fred: Christmas a humbug, uncle?

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You don't mean that, I'm sure.

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Scrooge: I do.
What right have you to be merry?

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You're poor enough.

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Fred: 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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Scrooge: Bah, humbug!

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Fred: Don't be cross, uncle!

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Scrooge:
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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Fred: 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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Narrator: The clerk
in voluntarily applauded

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becoming immedia te/y
sensible of the impropriety.

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Scrooge: 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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Fred: Don't be angry, uncle.

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Come! Dine with us tomorrow.

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Scrooge: Thank you, but no.

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Fred: But why? Why?

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Scrooge:
Why did you get married?

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Fred: Because I fell in love.

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Scrooge:
Because you fell in love!

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Good afternoon.

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Fred: I want nothing from you,
I ask nothing of you.

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Why cannot we be friends?

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Scrooge: Good afternoon.

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Fred:
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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Narrator: His nephew left

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without an ang/y 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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Scrooge:
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,
isuppose.

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Cratchit:
If quite convenient, sir.

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Scrooge: 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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Cratchit:
It is only once a year, sir.

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Scrooge: A poor excuse
for picking a man's pocket

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every 25th of December!

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Butlsuppose
you must have the whole day.

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Be here all the earlier
next morning.

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Narrator:
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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children giggle

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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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Man 1:
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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Man 1: We have no doubt his
liberality is well represented

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by his surviving partner.

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Scrooge: Good afternoon.

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Man 2: 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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Boy: Take pity on us, sir.

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We've got no lodgings.

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Man 2: 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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Scrooge: Are there no prisons?

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Man 1: Plenty of prisons.

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Scrooge:
And the union workhouses?

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Are they still in operation?

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Man 1: They are. I wish
I could say they were not.

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Scrooge:
The treadmill and the poor law

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are in full vigour then?

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Man 2: Both very busy, sir.

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Scrooge: 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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Man 1: 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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Scrooge: Nothing!

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Man 2: You wish to be anonymous?

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Scrooge: 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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Man 2: Many can't go there

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and many would rather die.

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Manager: The missus goes
that way, you that way.

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No argument, mind.

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Scrooge:
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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Raucous chati'er

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overseer: Hurry along, there!

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No talking.

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Crowd clamou rs

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overseer: Eyes to the front!

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Crowd chati'er fades

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loud laughter

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man: Another gin, waiter!

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Cups clink

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man 2: Finished with the paper?

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Narrator: 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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Beggar: Charity?

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It's Christmas, guv.

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Narrator: 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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Ghostly chime

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Bells ring

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the bells ceased
as they had begun, together.

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Distant clank

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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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Eerie rasp

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then he heard the noise
much louder

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coming straight to wards
his door.

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Eerie rasp

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eerie groan

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eerie growl

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Scrooge:
What do you want with me?

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Marley: 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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Scrooge: 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.

258
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There's more of gravy
than of grave about you.

259
00:18:45,542 --> 00:18:47,875
Marley groans

260
00:18:50,083 --> 00:18:52,000
Marley roars

261
00:18:53,750 --> 00:18:56,042
why do spirits walk the earth?

262
00:18:56,625 --> 00:18:58,208
And why do they come to me?

263
00:18:59,083 --> 00:19:01,125
Marley: It is required...

264
00:19:01,292 --> 00:19:04,333
Marley rasps ...Of every man

265
00:19:04,417 --> 00:19:06,583
that the sprit within him

266
00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:10,042
should walk among his fellow man

267
00:19:10,125 --> 00:19:13,750
and travel far and wide

268
00:19:13,833 --> 00:19:18,333
and if that spirit
goes not forth in life

269
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it is condemned to do so
after death.

270
00:19:26,292 --> 00:19:31,500
Oh, woe is me!

271
00:19:31,708 --> 00:19:32,958
Scrooge: You are fettered.

272
00:19:35,333 --> 00:19:37,708
Marley: I wear the chains

273
00:19:37,792 --> 00:19:40,833
I forged in life.

274
00:19:40,917 --> 00:19:44,792
I made it link by link

275
00:19:44,875 --> 00:19:47,583
and yard by yard.

276
00:19:47,667 --> 00:19:49,833
I girded it on

277
00:19:50,375 --> 00:19:54,333
and of my own free will

278
00:19:54,792 --> 00:19:56,583
I wore it.

279
00:19:59,542 --> 00:20:04,167
Is its pattern strange to you?

280
00:20:04,750 --> 00:20:08,208
Or would you know
the weight and length

281
00:20:08,292 --> 00:20:13,292
of the strong coil
you wear yourself?

282
00:20:15,042 --> 00:20:21,208
It was full as heavy
and as long as this

283
00:20:21,333 --> 00:20:24,500
seven christmases ago...

284
00:20:24,667 --> 00:20:30,208
And you have
laboured on it since.

285
00:20:30,917 --> 00:20:34,667
Scrooge: Jacob, tell me more.
Speak comfort to me!

286
00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:37,875
Marley: I have none to give.

287
00:20:38,292 --> 00:20:41,000
Scrooge: But you were always
a good man of business, Jacob.

288
00:20:41,417 --> 00:20:42,958
Marley: Business!

289
00:20:43,625 --> 00:20:47,292
Mankind was my business.

290
00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:52,250
The common welfare
was my business.

291
00:20:52,958 --> 00:20:57,292
Charity, mercy and benevolence

292
00:20:57,375 --> 00:21:00,750
were all my business.

293
00:21:02,083 --> 00:21:03,417
Marley sighs

294
00:21:04,375 --> 00:21:05,625
Marley groans

295
00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:07,750
Marley roars

296
00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:11,083
at this time of year,
I suffer most.

297
00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:12,875
Man: She's a ripe one.

298
00:21:12,958 --> 00:21:14,792
Ripe for the picking!
Man sniggers

299
00:21:15,833 --> 00:21:19,250
Marley:
Why did I walk through crowds

300
00:21:19,333 --> 00:21:23,417
of fellow beings
with my eyes turned down

301
00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,500
and never raise them
to that blessed star

302
00:21:27,583 --> 00:21:31,417
which led the wise men
to a poor abode!

303
00:21:33,208 --> 00:21:34,833
Hear me!

304
00:21:35,375 --> 00:21:38,083
My time is nearly gone.

305
00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:42,542
I am here tonight to warn you

306
00:21:42,833 --> 00:21:45,625
that you have yet a hope

307
00:21:46,083 --> 00:21:49,625
of escaping my fate.

308
00:21:49,750 --> 00:21:51,958
Scrooge: You were always
a good friend to me. Thank ye!

309
00:21:52,583 --> 00:21:54,875
Marley: You will...

310
00:21:55,833 --> 00:21:59,917
Be haunted by three spirits.

311
00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:01,833
Marley rasps

312
00:22:04,583 --> 00:22:06,333
Marley chuckles

313
00:22:08,083 --> 00:22:13,917
expect the first
when the bell tolls midnight.

314
00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:17,250
Look to see me no more

315
00:22:17,333 --> 00:22:19,167
and remember

316
00:22:19,708 --> 00:22:24,542
what has passed between us.

317
00:22:34,125 --> 00:22:36,167
Eerie gust

318
00:22:36,917 --> 00:22:39,667
narrator:
The air was filled with phantoms

319
00:22:39,750 --> 00:22:42,792
wandering hither and thither
in restless haste

320
00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:44,708
and moaning as they went

321
00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,958
eve/y one of them wore chains
like Marley's ghost

322
00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:56,042
some few, they might be guilty
governments

323
00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:57,625
were linked together.

324
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:59,417
None were free.

325
00:23:03,667 --> 00:23:08,458
Many had been personally known
to scrooge in their lives.

326
00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:12,458
He had been quite familiar
with one old ghost

327
00:23:12,542 --> 00:23:14,875
who cried piteously

328
00:23:15,083 --> 00:23:18,208
at being unable to assist
a wretched housekeeper

329
00:23:18,292 --> 00:23:21,708
with an infant whom it saw
below, upon a doorstep.

330
00:23:24,083 --> 00:23:26,625
Whether these creatures
faded into mist

331
00:23:26,833 --> 00:23:28,792
or mist enshrouded them

332
00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:30,750
he could not tell. — baby cries

333
00:23:30,833 --> 00:23:35,125
but they and their
spirit voices faded together

334
00:23:36,333 --> 00:23:39,417
and the night
became as it had been.

335
00:23:40,250 --> 00:23:44,833
♪ Hark the herald... ♪

336
00:23:47,208 --> 00:23:49,667
Narrator:
The ghost of Christmas past.

337
00:23:56,708 --> 00:23:58,333
Church bell chimes

338
00:24:03,792 --> 00:24:05,500
When scrooge awoke

339
00:24:05,792 --> 00:24:08,875
the neighbouring church
struck the four quarters

340
00:24:08,958 --> 00:24:11,083
so he listened for the hour.

341
00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:13,667
Church bell chimes

342
00:24:16,250 --> 00:24:17,375
twelve.

343
00:24:18,042 --> 00:24:21,375
Marley's ghost
bothered him exceedingly.

344
00:24:22,333 --> 00:24:25,042
Was it a dream, or not?

345
00:24:27,542 --> 00:24:30,250
Scrooge: Are you the spirit
whose coming was foretold me?

346
00:24:30,958 --> 00:24:33,708
Ghost of xmas past: I am
the ghost of Christmas past.

347
00:24:34,625 --> 00:24:35,792
Your past.

348
00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:37,500
Scrooge:
What business brought you here?

349
00:24:37,583 --> 00:24:39,000
Ghost of xmas past:
Your welfare.

350
00:24:39,125 --> 00:24:42,208
Narrator: Scrooge expressed
himself much obliged

351
00:24:42,708 --> 00:24:46,792
but could not help thinking
that a night of unbroken rest

352
00:24:46,875 --> 00:24:49,292
would have been more conducive
to that end.

353
00:24:49,917 --> 00:24:52,667
The spirit must have
heard him thinking.

354
00:24:53,083 --> 00:24:55,125
Ghost of xmas past:
Your reclamation, then.

355
00:24:55,333 --> 00:24:56,667
Take heed.

356
00:24:57,792 --> 00:25:00,833
Narrator: It put out
its strong hand as it spoke

357
00:25:00,917 --> 00:25:03,667
and clasped him gently
by the arm.

358
00:25:04,417 --> 00:25:07,750
It would have been in vain
for scrooge to plead

359
00:25:08,042 --> 00:25:09,958
that the bed was warm

360
00:25:10,083 --> 00:25:13,167
and the thermometer
a long way below freezing

361
00:25:13,250 --> 00:25:16,250
and that he was clad
but lightly in his slippers

362
00:25:16,333 --> 00:25:18,083
dressing gown and nightcap

363
00:25:18,167 --> 00:25:21,000
and that he had a cold upon him
at that time.

364
00:25:21,250 --> 00:25:25,667
The grasp, though gentle,
was not to be resisted.

365
00:25:28,542 --> 00:25:31,958
He Rose, and somehow knew

366
00:25:32,208 --> 00:25:35,208
that the spirit would take him
into the air.

367
00:25:36,042 --> 00:25:38,167
Scrooge:
I am mortal, and liable to fall.

368
00:25:39,042 --> 00:25:41,875
Ghost of xmas past: Bear but
a touch of my hand there

369
00:25:42,458 --> 00:25:45,792
and you shall be upheld
in more than this.

370
00:25:46,958 --> 00:25:49,458
Narrator:
As the words were spoken

371
00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:52,417
they passed through the wall

372
00:25:52,917 --> 00:25:56,792
and stood upon
an open count/y road

373
00:25:57,167 --> 00:25:59,375
with fields on either hand.

374
00:25:59,667 --> 00:26:01,083
Child laughs

375
00:26:02,875 --> 00:26:03,875
child: Woohoo!

376
00:26:03,958 --> 00:26:06,333
Happy Christmas, will, Charlie!

377
00:26:06,792 --> 00:26:07,875
Scrooge: Good heaven!

378
00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:11,458
I was bred in this place.
I was a boy here.

379
00:26:13,208 --> 00:26:16,625
Narrator: He was conscious
of a thousand odours

380
00:26:16,708 --> 00:26:19,917
floating in the air,
each one connected

381
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,042
with a thousand thoughts,
and hopes, and joys

382
00:26:24,125 --> 00:26:27,917
and cares long, long forgotten.

383
00:26:28,750 --> 00:26:30,833
Ghost of xmas past:
You recollect the way?

384
00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:33,750
Scrooge: Remember it!
I could walk it blindfold.

385
00:26:33,833 --> 00:26:35,875
Ghost of xmas past:
Strange you have forgotten it

386
00:26:35,958 --> 00:26:37,750
for so many years.

387
00:26:37,875 --> 00:26:39,833
Narrator:
They walked along the road

388
00:26:39,917 --> 00:26:43,333
scrooge recognising eve/y gate

389
00:26:43,417 --> 00:26:45,458
and post and tree

390
00:26:46,042 --> 00:26:49,167
until a little market town
appeared in the distance.

391
00:26:49,375 --> 00:26:51,208
Ghost of xmas past:
These are but the shadows

392
00:26:51,292 --> 00:26:52,708
of the things that have been.

393
00:26:52,792 --> 00:26:54,292
Child: See you next year!

394
00:26:54,375 --> 00:26:57,208
Next year...
How funny that sounds!

395
00:26:57,375 --> 00:27:00,583
Ghost of xmas past: The school
is not quite deserted.

396
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,875
A solitary child...
— school bell rings

397
00:27:03,250 --> 00:27:05,500
neglected by his friends

398
00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:07,917
is left there still.

399
00:27:09,250 --> 00:27:11,625
Narrator: The spirit
touched him on the arm

400
00:27:11,917 --> 00:27:14,625
and pointed to his young self

401
00:27:15,167 --> 00:27:18,833
a lonely boy
reading by a feeble fire.

402
00:27:20,583 --> 00:27:22,500
Scrooge wept

403
00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:27,375
to see his poor forgotten self
as he used to be.

404
00:27:29,833 --> 00:27:31,667
Scrooge: Why, it's old Tom!

405
00:27:32,750 --> 00:27:35,167
It's dear old, honest Tom.

406
00:27:35,958 --> 00:27:37,542
Yes, yes, I know...

407
00:27:40,542 --> 00:27:43,292
One Christmas time,
when yonder solitary child

408
00:27:43,375 --> 00:27:45,500
was left here all alone

409
00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:47,917
he did come to cheer me.

410
00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:50,125
Poor boy.

411
00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,917
Narrator:
Scrooge thought he was dreaming

412
00:27:53,625 --> 00:27:54,833
but he wasn't.

413
00:27:55,542 --> 00:27:58,417
Then,
with a rapidity of transition

414
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,292
very foreign
to his usual character

415
00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:05,083
he said,
in pity for his former self

416
00:28:05,958 --> 00:28:07,542
”poor boy! ”

417
00:28:08,458 --> 00:28:10,250
And cried again.

418
00:28:13,042 --> 00:28:14,208
Scrooge: I wish...

419
00:28:15,375 --> 00:28:16,875
But it's too late now.

420
00:28:18,625 --> 00:28:20,333
Ghost of xmas past:
What is the matter?

421
00:28:20,417 --> 00:28:21,292
Scrooge: Nothing.

422
00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:24,042
There was a boy singing
a Christmas Carol last night.

423
00:28:24,458 --> 00:28:26,792
I should like to have
given him something, that's all.

424
00:28:27,708 --> 00:28:30,042
Ghost of xmas past:
Let us see another Christmas.

425
00:28:37,167 --> 00:28:39,125
Narrator: He was not reading now

426
00:28:39,667 --> 00:28:42,542
but walking up and down
despairingly.

427
00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:45,875
Scrooge looked at the ghost

428
00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:49,042
and with a mournful
shaking of his head

429
00:28:49,333 --> 00:28:52,208
glanced anxiously
to wards the door.

430
00:28:57,542 --> 00:28:59,917
Fan: Oh, dear, dear brother!

431
00:29:00,917 --> 00:29:03,542
I have come to bring you home,
dear brother!

432
00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:05,500
To bring you home, home, home!

433
00:29:06,917 --> 00:29:08,375
Young scrooge: Home, little fan?

434
00:29:08,667 --> 00:29:11,583
Fan:
Yes! Home, for good and all.

435
00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:14,125
Home, for ever and ever.

436
00:29:15,583 --> 00:29:18,250
Father is so much kinder
than he used to be.

437
00:29:20,083 --> 00:29:21,958
He spoke so gently to me
one night

438
00:29:22,042 --> 00:29:23,292
when I was going to bed

439
00:29:23,625 --> 00:29:27,667
that I was not afraid to ask him
once more if you might come home

440
00:29:28,458 --> 00:29:30,958
and he said, "yes, you should!"

441
00:29:31,708 --> 00:29:33,667
And sent me in a coach
to bring you.

442
00:29:34,375 --> 00:29:37,000
And you are never
to come back here.

443
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:39,917
But first...

444
00:29:40,667 --> 00:29:43,417
We're to be together
all Christmas long

445
00:29:43,792 --> 00:29:47,292
and have the merriest time
in all the world!

446
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,208
Young scrooge: You are quite
a housekeeper, little fan.

447
00:29:50,292 --> 00:29:51,333
She giggles

448
00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:54,125
ghost of xmas past:
You must come with me now.

449
00:30:00,333 --> 00:30:01,750
Faint chati'er

450
00:30:02,292 --> 00:30:04,000
do you know this place?

451
00:30:05,083 --> 00:30:06,833
Scrooge:
Know it! Of course I know it.

452
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,500
Was I not apprenticed here?

453
00:30:08,792 --> 00:30:12,333
Narrator: Scrooge's former
self, now grown a young man

454
00:30:12,417 --> 00:30:16,167
came briskly in, accompanied
by his fellow prentice.

455
00:30:21,583 --> 00:30:24,125
Scrooge:
Dick Wilkins, to be sure!

456
00:30:24,292 --> 00:30:26,042
Bless me, yes, there he is!

457
00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:29,792
He was very much attached to me,
was dick.

458
00:30:30,292 --> 00:30:31,333
Poor dick.

459
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,625
Why, it's old fezziwig!

460
00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:38,625
Bless his heart, it's fezziwig,
alive again!

461
00:30:39,875 --> 00:30:42,333
Narrator:
Old fezziwig laid down his pen

462
00:30:42,417 --> 00:30:43,958
and looked at his watch.

463
00:30:44,167 --> 00:30:48,583
He rubbed his hands,
adjusted his capacious waistcoat

464
00:30:48,667 --> 00:30:51,625
and called out
in a comfortable, oily

465
00:30:51,708 --> 00:30:54,750
rich, fat, jovial voice...

466
00:30:55,167 --> 00:30:57,458
Fezziwig:
Yo—ho, there, ebenezer!

467
00:30:57,667 --> 00:30:59,500
Yo—ho, my boys!

468
00:30:59,667 --> 00:31:01,458
No more work tonight!

469
00:31:01,958 --> 00:31:03,708
Christmas, ebenezer.

470
00:31:04,083 --> 00:31:05,458
Hilly—ho!

471
00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:07,167
Clear away, my lads

472
00:31:07,250 --> 00:31:09,208
and let's have
lots of room here.

473
00:31:09,292 --> 00:31:10,417
Clear away!

474
00:31:10,958 --> 00:31:13,167
Narrator:
It was done in a minute.

475
00:31:13,333 --> 00:31:16,625
The floor was swept and watered,
and the lamps were trimmed

476
00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:19,458
and the warehouse
was as snug and warm

477
00:31:19,583 --> 00:31:22,125
and diy and bright a ballroom

478
00:31:22,250 --> 00:31:25,208
as you would desire to see
upon a winter's night.

479
00:31:28,625 --> 00:31:31,000
In came a Fiddler
with a music book

480
00:31:31,083 --> 00:31:34,667
and went up to the lofty desk,
and made an orchestra of it

481
00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:37,958
and tuned like 50 stomach aches.

482
00:31:38,542 --> 00:31:44,000
In came mrs fezziwig,
one vast substantial smile.

483
00:31:44,917 --> 00:31:47,333
In came the three miss fezziwigs

484
00:31:47,458 --> 00:31:49,042
beaming and lovable.

485
00:31:49,458 --> 00:31:53,375
In came the six young followers
whose hearts they broke.

486
00:31:53,750 --> 00:31:57,500
In came all the young men and
women employed in the business.

487
00:31:58,083 --> 00:32:00,875
In came the housemaid,
with her cousin, the baker.

488
00:32:01,042 --> 00:32:04,583
In came the cook, with her
brother's particular friend

489
00:32:04,667 --> 00:32:05,667
the milkman.

490
00:32:05,875 --> 00:32:07,917
In came the boy
from over the way

491
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,417
who was suspected of not
having board enough

492
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:11,667
from his master.

493
00:32:11,792 --> 00:32:15,708
In they all came,
anyhow and eveiyho w.

494
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,542
There were dances
and more dances

495
00:32:19,792 --> 00:32:22,792
and there were fon'eits,
and more dances

496
00:32:23,083 --> 00:32:25,583
and there was cake,
and there was negus

497
00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:28,250
and there was a great piece
of cold roast

498
00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:31,042
and there was a great piece
of cold boiled

499
00:32:31,292 --> 00:32:35,417
and there were mince pies,
and plenty of beer.

500
00:32:49,417 --> 00:32:51,000
During the whole of this time

501
00:32:51,083 --> 00:32:54,542
scrooge had acted like
a man out of his wits.

502
00:32:55,292 --> 00:32:58,292
His heart and soul
were in the scene

503
00:32:58,583 --> 00:33:00,583
and with his former self

504
00:33:02,417 --> 00:33:04,333
it was not until now

505
00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:06,917
when the bright face
of his former self

506
00:33:07,042 --> 00:33:08,500
was turned from them

507
00:33:08,750 --> 00:33:10,750
that he remembered the ghost

508
00:33:11,583 --> 00:33:15,792
and became conscious that
it was looking full upon him.

509
00:33:16,792 --> 00:33:18,018
Ghost of xmas past:
A small matter

510
00:33:18,042 --> 00:33:21,000
to make these silly folk
so full of gratitude.

511
00:33:21,125 --> 00:33:22,125
Scrooge: Small!

512
00:33:22,208 --> 00:33:24,292
Ghost of xmas past:
Why? Is it not small?

513
00:33:24,667 --> 00:33:26,958
He has spent but a few pounds.

514
00:33:27,542 --> 00:33:31,042
Is that so much
that he deserves this praise?

515
00:33:31,542 --> 00:33:33,958
Narrator:
Scrooge, heated by the remark

516
00:33:34,042 --> 00:33:36,583
and speaking unconsciously
like his former

517
00:33:36,667 --> 00:33:38,667
not his latter self, said...

518
00:33:38,833 --> 00:33:40,292
Scrooge: It isn't that, spirit!

519
00:33:40,375 --> 00:33:43,333
He has the power to render us
happy or unhappy.

520
00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:46,750
To make our service
light or burdensome

521
00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:48,333
a pleasure or a toil.

522
00:33:49,625 --> 00:33:51,333
The happiness he gives

523
00:33:51,625 --> 00:33:54,000
is quite as great
as if it cost a fortune.

524
00:33:56,292 --> 00:34:00,042
Narrator: He felt the
spirit's glance, and stopped

525
00:34:00,625 --> 00:34:02,145
ghost of xmas past:
What is the matter?

526
00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:03,458
Scrooge: Nothing in particular.

527
00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:05,542
Ghost of xmas past:
Something, I think?

528
00:34:06,250 --> 00:34:08,417
Scrooge: I should like to be
able to say a word or two

529
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,458
to my clerkjust now. That's all.

530
00:34:13,042 --> 00:34:14,833
Crowd cheers

531
00:34:57,208 --> 00:35:00,375
Ghost of xmas past:
We must away, to your sister.

532
00:35:06,125 --> 00:35:08,250
Always a delicate creature

533
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:10,375
whom a breath
might have withered

534
00:35:11,083 --> 00:35:13,167
but she had a large heart.

535
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,292
Scrooge:
So she had. You're right.

536
00:35:15,542 --> 00:35:17,083
I'll not deny it for a second.

537
00:35:17,708 --> 00:35:18,833
God forbid.

538
00:35:19,625 --> 00:35:21,167
Ghost of xmas past:
She died a woman

539
00:35:21,292 --> 00:35:23,417
and had, I think, children.

540
00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:27,958
Scrooge: One child.

541
00:35:28,083 --> 00:35:29,958
Ghost of xmas past:
True, your nephew.

542
00:35:43,917 --> 00:35:46,292
My time grows short. Quick.

543
00:35:51,542 --> 00:35:53,458
Baby cries

544
00:36:04,208 --> 00:36:05,917
Narrator: He was older now.

545
00:36:06,292 --> 00:36:09,333
His face had begun
to wear the signs

546
00:36:09,458 --> 00:36:11,417
of care and avarice.

547
00:36:11,708 --> 00:36:16,375
There was an eager, greedy,
restless motion in the eye

548
00:36:16,750 --> 00:36:19,917
which showed the passion
that had taken root

549
00:36:20,333 --> 00:36:24,125
and where the shadow
of the growing tree would fall.

550
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:29,125
He was sat by the side
of a fair young girl

551
00:36:29,417 --> 00:36:31,958
in whose eyes there were tears.

552
00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:47,250
Belle: It matters little.

553
00:36:48,417 --> 00:36:49,667
To you, very little.

554
00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:52,542
Another idol has displaced me

555
00:36:52,958 --> 00:36:55,208
and if it can cheer and
comfort you in time to come

556
00:36:55,292 --> 00:36:56,708
as I would have tried to do

557
00:36:56,875 --> 00:36:58,375
I have no just cause to grieve.

558
00:36:58,458 --> 00:37:00,000
What idol has displaced you?

559
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:01,833
Belle: A golden one.

560
00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,042
Scrooge scoffs

561
00:37:05,833 --> 00:37:08,125
this is the even—handed
dealing of the world.

562
00:37:08,250 --> 00:37:10,875
There is nothing on which
it is so hard as poverty

563
00:37:10,958 --> 00:37:12,792
and there is nothing
it professes to condemn

564
00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:15,042
with such severity
as the pursuit of wealth!

565
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,958
Belle:
You fear the world too much.

566
00:37:24,083 --> 00:37:27,083
All your other hopes have merged
into the hope of wealth.

567
00:37:27,917 --> 00:37:31,500
I have seen your nobler
aspirations fall off one by one

568
00:37:31,625 --> 00:37:34,875
until the master passion, gain,
engrosses you. Have I not?

569
00:37:37,042 --> 00:37:38,083
Scrooge: What then?

570
00:37:38,167 --> 00:37:41,167
Even if I have grown
so much wiser, what then?

571
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,083
I am not changed towards you.

572
00:37:45,917 --> 00:37:46,958
Belle: Am I?

573
00:37:49,958 --> 00:37:52,333
Our contract is an old one.

574
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,917
It was made when we were both
poor and content to be so

575
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,333
until, in good season,
we could improve

576
00:37:58,417 --> 00:38:01,042
our worldly fortune
by our patient industry.

577
00:38:02,292 --> 00:38:03,500
You are changed.

578
00:38:04,042 --> 00:38:06,125
When it was made,
you were another man.

579
00:38:10,292 --> 00:38:11,500
Scrooge: I was a boy.

580
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:18,708
Your own feeling tells you
that you were not then

581
00:38:18,792 --> 00:38:19,917
what you are now.

582
00:38:20,667 --> 00:38:23,042
That which promised happiness
when we were one in heart

583
00:38:23,125 --> 00:38:25,417
is fraught with misery
now that we are two.

584
00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:30,792
It is enough
that I have thought of it

585
00:38:30,875 --> 00:38:32,958
and can release you.
— have I ever sought release?

586
00:38:33,042 --> 00:38:34,083
Scrooge: In words?

587
00:38:34,458 --> 00:38:36,250
No. Never. — in what, then?

588
00:38:36,375 --> 00:38:38,917
Belle: In everything that made
my love of any worth

589
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,458
or value in your sight.

590
00:38:41,750 --> 00:38:43,875
If this had never been
between us, tell me

591
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,542
would you seek me out
and try to win me now?

592
00:38:47,375 --> 00:38:49,750
Narrator: He seemed to yield
to the justice

593
00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:52,208
of this supposition,
in spite of himself

594
00:38:52,583 --> 00:38:55,458
but he said, with a struggle...

595
00:38:56,292 --> 00:38:57,542
Scrooge: You think not?

596
00:38:58,792 --> 00:39:01,125
Belle: I would gladly
think otherwise, if I could.

597
00:39:02,042 --> 00:39:05,083
But if you were free today,
tomorrow, yesterday

598
00:39:05,625 --> 00:39:08,042
can I believe that you would
choose a poor girl?

599
00:39:08,167 --> 00:39:10,833
You, who now
weigh everything by gain.

600
00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:16,583
If, for a moment,
you were false enough

601
00:39:16,667 --> 00:39:18,417
to your one guiding principle

602
00:39:18,625 --> 00:39:21,917
I know that your repentance
and regret would surely follow.

603
00:39:26,542 --> 00:39:28,292
Narrator: He was about to speak

604
00:39:28,417 --> 00:39:30,500
but with her head
turned from him

605
00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:32,083
she walked away.

606
00:39:33,792 --> 00:39:35,458
He did not fol/o w.

607
00:39:41,042 --> 00:39:42,708
Scrooge:
Spirit! Show me no more!

608
00:39:42,917 --> 00:39:45,875
Conduct me home. Why do you
delight to torture me?

609
00:39:47,667 --> 00:39:49,500
Ghost of xmas past:
One shadow more.

610
00:39:50,083 --> 00:39:52,000
Scrooge:
No more, I don't wish to see it!

611
00:39:52,083 --> 00:39:53,333
Show me no more!

612
00:39:54,292 --> 00:39:56,542
Narrator: But the relentless
ghost pinioned him

613
00:39:56,625 --> 00:39:57,958
in both his arms

614
00:39:58,042 --> 00:40:01,708
and forced him to obsen/e
what happened next.

615
00:40:07,375 --> 00:40:09,708
They were now years hence.

616
00:40:10,417 --> 00:40:13,958
A room,
not very large or handsome

617
00:40:14,167 --> 00:40:15,833
but full of comfort

618
00:40:16,542 --> 00:40:19,750
near to the fire
sat a beautiful young girl

619
00:40:19,958 --> 00:40:21,750
so like that last

620
00:40:21,875 --> 00:40:24,208
that scrooge believed
it was the same

621
00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,250
until he saw her

622
00:40:26,375 --> 00:40:30,667
now a comely matron,
sitting opposite her daughter.

623
00:40:31,917 --> 00:40:34,292
And now scrooge looked on

624
00:40:34,375 --> 00:40:36,167
more attentively than ever

625
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:38,375
when the master of the house

626
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:41,583
having his eldest daughter
leaning fondly on him

627
00:40:41,750 --> 00:40:46,250
sat down with her and her mother
at his own fireside.

628
00:40:47,042 --> 00:40:51,167
And when he thought
that such another creature

629
00:40:51,250 --> 00:40:53,417
quite as graceful
and as full of promise

630
00:40:53,583 --> 00:40:55,417
might have called him father

631
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,958
and been a springtime in
the haggard winter of his life

632
00:40:59,542 --> 00:41:03,542
his sight grew very dim indeed.

633
00:41:14,750 --> 00:41:17,042
Scrooge: Spirit!
Remove me from this place.

634
00:41:17,667 --> 00:41:19,792
Ghost of xmas past:
I told you these were shadows

635
00:41:19,875 --> 00:41:21,917
of the things that have been.

636
00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:25,583
They are what they are.
Do not blame me.

637
00:41:26,667 --> 00:41:28,833
Scrooge:
Remove me! I cannot bear it!

638
00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:32,083
Narrator:
He turned upon the ghost

639
00:41:32,583 --> 00:41:35,083
and seeing that it looked
upon him with a face

640
00:41:35,167 --> 00:41:37,750
in which, in some strange way

641
00:41:37,833 --> 00:41:41,458
there were fragments of
all the faces it had she wn him

642
00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:43,375
wrestled with it.

643
00:41:45,083 --> 00:41:47,917
He was conscious
of being exhausted

644
00:41:48,125 --> 00:41:51,583
and overcome
by an irresistible drowsiness...

645
00:42:00,875 --> 00:42:02,125
And further...

646
00:42:02,708 --> 00:42:05,875
Of being in his own bedroom.
— church bell chimes

647
00:42:11,625 --> 00:42:12,708
He snores

648
00:42:12,792 --> 00:42:15,083
narrator:
The ghost of Christmas present

649
00:42:17,542 --> 00:42:21,875
he woke in the middle
of a prodigiously tough snore

650
00:42:22,125 --> 00:42:24,833
and sat up in bed
to get his thoughts together.

651
00:42:26,375 --> 00:42:32,208
Choir sings: ♪ go, go tell it ♪

652
00:42:36,542 --> 00:42:42,375
♪ go, go tell it ♪

653
00:42:45,917 --> 00:42:50,292
♪ on the mountain... ♪

654
00:42:50,417 --> 00:42:52,458
Narrator: It was his own room.

655
00:42:52,708 --> 00:42:54,583
There was no doubt about that

656
00:42:55,292 --> 00:42:58,792
but it had undergone
a surprising transformation.

657
00:43:00,417 --> 00:43:03,667
A mighty Blaze went roaring up
the chimney

658
00:43:03,792 --> 00:43:06,542
as that dull petrifaction
of a hearth

659
00:43:06,625 --> 00:43:10,542
had never known
in scrooge's time, or Marley 's

660
00:43:10,625 --> 00:43:14,500
or for many and many
a winter season gone.

661
00:43:15,750 --> 00:43:19,042
A jolly giant, glorious to see

662
00:43:19,375 --> 00:43:21,583
who bore a glowing torch

663
00:43:21,667 --> 00:43:24,500
in shape not unlike
plenty's horn

664
00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:30,125
and held it up, high up,
to shed its light on scrooge

665
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:33,375
as he came peeping
round the door.

666
00:43:34,417 --> 00:43:35,458
Ghost chuckles

667
00:43:35,625 --> 00:43:38,000
come in! Come in,
and know me better, man!

668
00:43:38,875 --> 00:43:41,292
Na r rato r:
Scrooge entered timidly

669
00:43:41,792 --> 00:43:44,542
and hung his head
before this spirit

670
00:43:45,417 --> 00:43:48,917
he was not the dogged scrooge
he had been

671
00:43:49,583 --> 00:43:53,167
and though the spirit's eyes
were clear and kind

672
00:43:54,083 --> 00:43:56,250
he did not like to meet them.

673
00:43:57,125 --> 00:43:59,226
Ghost of xmas present: I am
the ghost of Christmas present.

674
00:43:59,250 --> 00:44:00,250
Look upon me.

675
00:44:00,333 --> 00:44:03,000
Narrator:
Scrooge re verent/y did so.

676
00:44:04,083 --> 00:44:08,333
It was clothed
in one simple green robe

677
00:44:08,667 --> 00:44:10,333
bordered with white fur.

678
00:44:11,125 --> 00:44:14,083
This garment hung loosely
on the figure.

679
00:44:14,667 --> 00:44:18,667
Its feet obsen/ab/e beneath
the ample folds of the garment

680
00:44:18,792 --> 00:44:21,500
were bare, and on its head

681
00:44:21,708 --> 00:44:24,917
it wore no other covering
than a Holly wreath.

682
00:44:25,792 --> 00:44:28,833
Girded round its middle
was an antique scabbard

683
00:44:29,125 --> 00:44:31,000
but no sword was in it

684
00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:36,083
and the ancient sheath
was eaten up with rust

685
00:44:37,292 --> 00:44:38,559
ghost of xmas present:
You've never seen

686
00:44:38,583 --> 00:44:40,625
the like of me before.
— never, sir.

687
00:44:40,708 --> 00:44:42,184
Ghost of xmas present:
Have never walked forth

688
00:44:42,208 --> 00:44:43,688
with the younger members
of my family?

689
00:44:43,750 --> 00:44:45,792
Scrooge: I'm afraid I have not.

690
00:44:46,083 --> 00:44:47,708
Have you had many brothers,
spirit?

691
00:44:47,833 --> 00:44:49,458
Ghost of xmas present:
More than 1,800.

692
00:44:50,333 --> 00:44:52,208
Scrooge: Spirit, conduct me
where you will.

693
00:44:52,917 --> 00:44:54,792
I went forth last night
on compulsion

694
00:44:54,917 --> 00:44:57,417
and I learnt a lesson
which is working now.

695
00:44:58,333 --> 00:45:00,042
Tonight,
if you have aught to teach me

696
00:45:00,125 --> 00:45:01,250
let me profit by it.

697
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:03,000
Ghost of xmas present:
Touch my robe.

698
00:45:03,083 --> 00:45:06,833
Narrator: Scrooge did as
he was told, and held it fast

699
00:45:16,917 --> 00:45:22,958
Choir sings: ♪ on the mountain ♪

700
00:45:24,583 --> 00:45:31,000
♪ go tell it on the mountain ♪

701
00:45:31,375 --> 00:45:34,875
♪ go tell ♪

702
00:45:36,833 --> 00:45:39,000
Woman: Go to sleep,
or he won't come.

703
00:45:40,333 --> 00:45:41,750
Child: Will we leave a carrot?

704
00:45:43,625 --> 00:45:45,208
Woman 2:
Thank you, your majesty.

705
00:45:46,958 --> 00:45:49,625
Woman 3: The size, we'll still
be serving it at easter!

706
00:45:54,208 --> 00:45:56,083
Narrator:
They stood in the city streets

707
00:45:56,167 --> 00:45:57,583
on Christmas morning.

708
00:45:58,292 --> 00:46:01,958
There was nothing very cheen'u/
in the climate or the town

709
00:46:02,208 --> 00:46:05,833
and yet there was an air
of cheen'u/ness abroad

710
00:46:05,917 --> 00:46:08,292
that the clearest summer air

711
00:46:08,375 --> 00:46:10,042
and brightest summer sun

712
00:46:10,125 --> 00:46:12,833
might have endeavoured
to diffuse in vain.

713
00:46:12,917 --> 00:46:16,292
Man:
Fresh oysters! Fresh oysters!

714
00:46:17,125 --> 00:46:20,125
Narrator: The people were,
by this time, pouring forth.

715
00:46:20,208 --> 00:46:21,500
Crowd chati'e rs

716
00:46:21,583 --> 00:46:23,167
man: Buy any milk today?

717
00:46:23,250 --> 00:46:26,875
The grocers, oh, the grocers!

718
00:46:27,292 --> 00:46:30,208
The blended scents
of tea and coffee

719
00:46:30,292 --> 00:46:32,667
were so grateful to the nose.

720
00:46:32,958 --> 00:46:35,625
The sticks of cinnamon
so long and straight

721
00:46:35,875 --> 00:46:38,792
the candied fruits so caked

722
00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:41,083
and spotted with molten sugar.

723
00:46:41,708 --> 00:46:45,333
The customers were all
so hurried and so eager

724
00:46:45,417 --> 00:46:47,250
in the hopeful promise
of the day

725
00:46:47,333 --> 00:46:49,792
that they tumbled up
against each other at the door

726
00:46:49,875 --> 00:46:52,417
clashing their
wicker baskets wildly.

727
00:46:54,250 --> 00:46:56,083
Church bell chimes
— but soon, the steeples

728
00:46:56,167 --> 00:46:58,292
called good people all to church

729
00:46:58,458 --> 00:47:01,167
fiocking through the streets
in their best clothes

730
00:47:01,250 --> 00:47:03,208
and with their gayest faces.

731
00:47:07,333 --> 00:47:09,625
And at the same time,
there emerged

732
00:47:09,708 --> 00:47:13,917
from scores of by—streets,
lanes and nameless turnings

733
00:47:14,125 --> 00:47:15,875
innumerable people

734
00:47:15,958 --> 00:47:19,042
canying their dinners
to the bakers ' shops.

735
00:47:21,125 --> 00:47:22,792
The sight of these
poor revellers

736
00:47:22,875 --> 00:47:25,458
appeared to interest
the spirit very much

737
00:47:25,625 --> 00:47:29,000
for he stood with scrooge
beside him in a baker's doorway

738
00:47:29,250 --> 00:47:33,042
and sprinkled incense
on their dinners from his torch.

739
00:47:37,292 --> 00:47:38,875
Woman: Mrs Johnson's got beef?

740
00:47:38,958 --> 00:47:40,833
She must've been
at the old man's wages

741
00:47:40,917 --> 00:47:42,792
before he got to the pub!
She laughs

742
00:47:42,875 --> 00:47:45,115
scrooge: Is there a peculiar
flavour in what you sprinkle

743
00:47:45,167 --> 00:47:46,833
from your torch? — there is.

744
00:47:46,917 --> 00:47:47,917
My own.

745
00:47:48,167 --> 00:47:50,458
Scrooge: Would it apply to any
kind of dinner on this day?

746
00:47:50,542 --> 00:47:51,893
Ghost of xmas present:
To any kindly given.

747
00:47:51,917 --> 00:47:53,083
To a poor one most.

748
00:47:53,208 --> 00:47:54,500
Scrooge: Why to a poor one most?

749
00:47:54,583 --> 00:47:56,463
Ghost of xmas present:
Because it needs it most.

750
00:47:56,750 --> 00:47:59,083
Scrooge: Spirit, I wonder you,
of all the beings

751
00:47:59,167 --> 00:48:01,667
in the many worlds about us,
should desire to cramp

752
00:48:01,750 --> 00:48:03,750
these people's opportunities
of innocent enjoyment.

753
00:48:03,833 --> 00:48:04,708
Ghost of xmas present: I?

754
00:48:04,792 --> 00:48:06,559
Scrooge: You would deprive
those that have no hearths

755
00:48:06,583 --> 00:48:08,792
of their own, the means of
cooking every seventh day

756
00:48:08,875 --> 00:48:11,143
often the only day on which
they can be said to dine at all

757
00:48:11,167 --> 00:48:12,167
wouldn't you?

758
00:48:12,208 --> 00:48:14,833
Scrooge: You seek to close
these bakeries on the sabbath.

759
00:48:14,917 --> 00:48:16,875
It comes to the same thing.
— I seek...

760
00:48:16,958 --> 00:48:18,292
Scrooge:
Forgive me if I am wrong.

761
00:48:18,375 --> 00:48:19,583
It has been done in your name

762
00:48:19,667 --> 00:48:21,417
or at least
in that of your family.

763
00:48:23,583 --> 00:48:24,583
Ghost scoffs

764
00:48:24,667 --> 00:48:26,583
there are some
upon this earth of yours

765
00:48:26,750 --> 00:48:28,625
who lay claim to know us

766
00:48:28,917 --> 00:48:31,708
and who do their deeds
of passion, pride

767
00:48:32,042 --> 00:48:34,708
ill will, hatred, envy

768
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,083
bigotry and selfishness
in our name

769
00:48:39,042 --> 00:48:42,917
who are as strange to us
and all our kith and kin

770
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,458
as if they had never lived.

771
00:48:45,625 --> 00:48:46,708
Remember that...

772
00:48:47,333 --> 00:48:49,208
And charge their doings
on themselves...

773
00:48:50,125 --> 00:48:51,292
Not us.

774
00:48:51,417 --> 00:48:53,292
Train rati'les

775
00:48:53,417 --> 00:48:55,333
train whistle blows

776
00:49:02,625 --> 00:49:04,458
Girl 1: I hope Martha
doesn't lose the pennies

777
00:49:04,542 --> 00:49:05,625
she saved for the train!

778
00:49:06,542 --> 00:49:08,417
Girl 2:
She mustn't! I'll miss her.

779
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,667
Girl 3:
Let's wish she's not too tired

780
00:49:18,750 --> 00:49:20,333
from making all those hats.

781
00:49:21,583 --> 00:49:23,458
Man: All aboard!

782
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,792
Narrator:
Bob had but 75 Bob a week

783
00:49:33,292 --> 00:49:35,000
he pocketed on Saturdays

784
00:49:35,125 --> 00:49:38,417
but 75 copies
of his Christian name

785
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,625
and yet the
ghost of Christmas present

786
00:49:42,708 --> 00:49:45,375
blessed his four—roamed house.

787
00:49:46,708 --> 00:49:48,458
Up Rose mrs cratchit

788
00:49:48,542 --> 00:49:51,833
dressed out but poorly
in a twice—turned gown

789
00:49:51,917 --> 00:49:54,083
but brave in ribbons.

790
00:49:56,083 --> 00:49:58,542
Mrs cratchit: What has ever
got your precious father then?

791
00:49:58,625 --> 00:50:00,208
And your brother, tiny Tim?

792
00:50:00,375 --> 00:50:03,333
And Martha weren't as late
last Christmas by half an hour.

793
00:50:04,167 --> 00:50:05,458
Boy: Here's Martha, mother!

794
00:50:05,542 --> 00:50:07,875
Children: Hello, Martha!
— hello Martha!

795
00:50:08,042 --> 00:50:10,458
Mrs cratchit: Why!
Bless your heart alive, my dear.

796
00:50:10,542 --> 00:50:12,042
How late you are!

797
00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:14,792
Martha: We'd a deal of work
to finish up last night

798
00:50:15,750 --> 00:50:17,792
and had to clear away
this morning, mother.

799
00:50:19,667 --> 00:50:21,250
Don't wake me in the morning.

800
00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:24,458
I hope to lay Abed tomorrow,
as it is a holiday!

801
00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:27,490
Mrs cratchit: Well, never mind.

802
00:50:27,542 --> 00:50:30,000
Sit ye down before the fire,
lord bless ye.

803
00:50:30,375 --> 00:50:32,250
Boy:
No, no. There's father coming!

804
00:50:32,333 --> 00:50:33,750
Hide, Martha, hide!

805
00:50:34,833 --> 00:50:36,833
Narrator: So Martha hid herself

806
00:50:36,917 --> 00:50:38,542
and in came Bob

807
00:50:38,625 --> 00:50:41,417
his threadbare clothes
darned up and brushed

808
00:50:41,500 --> 00:50:42,708
to look seasonable

809
00:50:43,125 --> 00:50:45,750
and tiny Tim upon his shoulder.

810
00:50:46,708 --> 00:50:51,125
Alas, for tiny Tim,
he bore a little crutch

811
00:50:51,625 --> 00:50:55,667
and had his limbs
supported by an iron frame.

812
00:50:56,542 --> 00:50:57,809
Cratchit:
Why, where's our Martha?

813
00:50:57,833 --> 00:50:59,667
Mrs cratchit: Not coming.
— not coming?

814
00:51:00,208 --> 00:51:02,750
Not coming upon Christmas day?
— children giggle

815
00:51:03,042 --> 00:51:05,458
narrator: Martha didn't like
to see him disappointed

816
00:51:05,542 --> 00:51:09,458
if it were only in joke,
so she ran into his arms.

817
00:51:09,625 --> 00:51:11,125
Martha: Happy Christmas, father!

818
00:51:11,583 --> 00:51:14,625
Narrator: The two young
cratchits hustled tiny Tim

819
00:51:14,708 --> 00:51:16,958
and bore him off
into the washhouse...

820
00:51:17,042 --> 00:51:18,375
Girl: You come with us, Tim!

821
00:51:18,708 --> 00:51:21,833
That he might hear the
pudding singing in the copper.

822
00:51:21,917 --> 00:51:24,125
Mrs cratchit:
And how did little Tim behave?

823
00:51:24,208 --> 00:51:25,917
Cratchit: Oh! As good as gold.

824
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:28,083
As good as gold and better.

825
00:51:29,167 --> 00:51:32,458
Somehow, he gets thoughtful
sitting by himself so much

826
00:51:33,167 --> 00:51:35,042
and thinks the strangest things.

827
00:51:36,250 --> 00:51:39,125
He told me, coming home,
that he hoped the people

828
00:51:39,208 --> 00:51:42,125
saw him in the church,
because he was a cripple

829
00:51:42,833 --> 00:51:46,042
and it might be pleasant to them
to remember upon Christmas day

830
00:51:46,708 --> 00:51:50,000
who made lame beggars walk,
and blind men see.

831
00:51:51,250 --> 00:51:54,708
Narrator: Bob's voice was
tremulous when he told them this

832
00:51:55,167 --> 00:51:58,083
and trembled uncertainly
when he said

833
00:51:58,292 --> 00:52:02,375
that tiny Tim was growing
strong and hearty.

834
00:52:03,083 --> 00:52:06,167
His active little crutch
was heard upon the floor

835
00:52:06,458 --> 00:52:08,292
and back came tiny Tim

836
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:10,542
escorted by his
brother and sister

837
00:52:10,667 --> 00:52:12,750
to his stool before the fire.

838
00:52:13,708 --> 00:52:16,958
Master Peter, and the two
ubiquitous young cratchits

839
00:52:17,042 --> 00:52:18,583
went to fetch the goose

840
00:52:18,750 --> 00:52:22,292
with which they soon returned
in high procession.

841
00:52:22,833 --> 00:52:24,833
Such a bustle ensued

842
00:52:24,917 --> 00:52:29,292
that you might have thought
a goose the rarest of all birds

843
00:52:29,583 --> 00:52:31,583
a feathered phenomenon.

844
00:52:33,042 --> 00:52:37,375
And in truth, it was something
very like it in that house.

845
00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:39,292
Cratchit:
I don't believe there was ever

846
00:52:39,375 --> 00:52:42,083
such a goose cooked, my dear!
Wonderful!

847
00:52:42,167 --> 00:52:43,583
Girl: Scrum—diddlyumptious!

848
00:52:43,667 --> 00:52:46,125
Narrator:
Its tenderness and fia vour

849
00:52:46,292 --> 00:52:48,167
size and cheapness

850
00:52:48,375 --> 00:52:51,125
were the themes
of universal admiration.

851
00:52:51,208 --> 00:52:52,250
Girl: Hope there's gravy!

852
00:52:52,333 --> 00:52:55,083
Eked out by apple sauce
and mashed potatoes

853
00:52:55,167 --> 00:52:58,208
it was a sufficient dinner
for the whole family.

854
00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:02,375
Indeed, as mrs cratchit said
with great delight

855
00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:06,583
sum/eying one small atom
of a bone upon the dish

856
00:53:06,750 --> 00:53:09,125
they hadn't ate it all at last

857
00:53:09,833 --> 00:53:12,583
but now,
the plates being changed

858
00:53:12,833 --> 00:53:15,625
mrs cratchit left the room alone

859
00:53:15,792 --> 00:53:18,167
too hen/ous to bear witnesses

860
00:53:18,250 --> 00:53:21,167
to take the pudding up
and bring it in.

861
00:53:22,583 --> 00:53:24,667
A great deal of steam!

862
00:53:25,167 --> 00:53:27,417
The pudding was out
of the copper.

863
00:53:27,875 --> 00:53:30,458
A smell like a washing day.

864
00:53:30,833 --> 00:53:32,000
That was the cloth.

865
00:53:32,625 --> 00:53:35,875
A smell like an eating house
and a past/y cook's

866
00:53:35,958 --> 00:53:37,333
next door to each other

867
00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:39,708
with a laundiy next door to that

868
00:53:40,417 --> 00:53:42,458
mrs cratchit entered

869
00:53:42,625 --> 00:53:45,375
fiushed but smiling proudly

870
00:53:45,542 --> 00:53:48,833
with the pudding
like a speckled Cannon ball.

871
00:53:49,208 --> 00:53:51,833
E veiybody had something
to say about it

872
00:53:52,208 --> 00:53:54,708
but nobody said or thought

873
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,417
it was a small pudding
for a large family.

874
00:53:58,708 --> 00:54:02,083
Any cratchit would have blushed
to hint at such a thing.

875
00:54:03,542 --> 00:54:07,500
Then all the cratchit family
drew round the hearth.

876
00:54:07,917 --> 00:54:10,750
Cratchit: A merry Christmas
to us all, my dears.

877
00:54:11,375 --> 00:54:12,667
God bless us.

878
00:54:13,167 --> 00:54:15,500
Tiny Tim:
God bless us, every one!

879
00:54:15,708 --> 00:54:18,583
Narrator:
Said tiny Tim, the last of all.

880
00:54:19,917 --> 00:54:22,208
He sat very close
to his father's side

881
00:54:22,292 --> 00:54:23,458
upon his little stool

882
00:54:24,375 --> 00:54:27,292
Bob held his withered
little hand in his

883
00:54:27,708 --> 00:54:30,042
as if he loved the child

884
00:54:30,125 --> 00:54:32,750
and wished to keep him
by his side

885
00:54:33,208 --> 00:54:37,000
and dreaded that he might
be taken from him.

886
00:54:38,542 --> 00:54:40,875
Scrooge: Spirit,
tell me if tiny Tim will live.

887
00:54:42,625 --> 00:54:44,417
Ghost of xmas present:
I see a vacant seat

888
00:54:45,208 --> 00:54:48,375
and a crutch without an owner,
carefully preserved.

889
00:54:54,250 --> 00:54:56,167
If these shadows remain
unaltered by the future

890
00:54:56,250 --> 00:54:57,250
the child will die.

891
00:54:57,333 --> 00:54:59,000
Scrooge: No, no, kind spirit.

892
00:54:59,083 --> 00:55:01,250
Say he will be spared.
— If these shadows remain

893
00:55:01,333 --> 00:55:04,417
unaltered by the future,
no other of my race

894
00:55:04,500 --> 00:55:06,875
will find him here.
Well, what then?

895
00:55:07,958 --> 00:55:10,667
If he be like to die,
he had better do it

896
00:55:10,875 --> 00:55:13,250
and decrease
the surplus population.

897
00:55:13,542 --> 00:55:15,542
Narrator: Scrooge hung his head

898
00:55:15,625 --> 00:55:19,000
to hear his own words
quoted by the spirit

899
00:55:19,917 --> 00:55:23,000
ghost of xmas present:
Man, if man you be in heart

900
00:55:23,083 --> 00:55:26,208
not stone,
forbear that wicked cant

901
00:55:26,292 --> 00:55:29,375
until you have discovered
what the surplus is

902
00:55:29,458 --> 00:55:30,917
and where it is.

903
00:55:31,667 --> 00:55:34,458
Will you decide what men shall
live and what men shall die?

904
00:55:35,083 --> 00:55:37,250
It may be,
that in the sight of heaven

905
00:55:37,333 --> 00:55:39,417
you are more worthless
and less fit to live

906
00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:42,333
than millions like this
poor man's child. Oh, god!

907
00:55:43,125 --> 00:55:46,542
To hear the insect on the leaf
pronouncing on the too—much—life

908
00:55:46,625 --> 00:55:48,792
among his hungry brothers
in the dust!

909
00:55:50,125 --> 00:55:53,250
Narrator: Scrooge bent
before the ghost's rebuke

910
00:55:53,667 --> 00:55:56,750
and trembling, cast his eyes
upon the ground

911
00:55:57,708 --> 00:56:01,292
but he raised them speedily,
on hearing his own name.

912
00:56:01,375 --> 00:56:02,458
Cratchit: To scrooge!

913
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,583
I'll give you mr scrooge,
the founder of the feast!

914
00:56:06,750 --> 00:56:08,958
Mrs cratchit:
The founder of the feast indeed!

915
00:56:09,125 --> 00:56:10,583
I wish I had him here.

916
00:56:10,750 --> 00:56:12,875
I'd give him a piece of my mind
to feast upon

917
00:56:12,958 --> 00:56:15,125
and I hope he'd have
a good appetite for it!

918
00:56:15,250 --> 00:56:17,000
Cratchit: My dear, the children.

919
00:56:17,083 --> 00:56:18,375
Christmas day!

920
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,309
Mrs cratchit: I'll drink
his health for your sake

921
00:56:20,333 --> 00:56:21,792
and the day's, not for his!

922
00:56:22,417 --> 00:56:25,000
Narrator:
Tiny Tim drank it last of all

923
00:56:25,333 --> 00:56:28,208
but he didn't care
two pence for it

924
00:56:28,542 --> 00:56:31,667
scrooge was the ogre
of the family.

925
00:56:33,958 --> 00:56:35,875
They were not a handsome family.

926
00:56:36,125 --> 00:56:37,750
They were not well dressed.

927
00:56:37,958 --> 00:56:40,625
Their shoes were far from
being waterproof

928
00:56:40,833 --> 00:56:42,958
their clothes were scanty

929
00:56:43,083 --> 00:56:46,167
and Bob's might have known,
and very likely did

930
00:56:46,250 --> 00:56:48,417
the inside of a pa wnbroker's.

931
00:56:49,167 --> 00:56:51,833
But they were happy, grateful

932
00:56:52,292 --> 00:56:53,625
pleased with one another

933
00:56:54,417 --> 00:56:57,042
and contented all the time.

934
00:56:57,208 --> 00:56:58,292
Children giggle

935
00:56:58,458 --> 00:57:00,500
scrooge had his eye upon them

936
00:57:00,958 --> 00:57:05,583
and especially on tiny Tim,
until the last

937
00:57:08,375 --> 00:57:10,417
laughter fades

938
00:57:11,292 --> 00:57:12,958
it was a long night

939
00:57:13,708 --> 00:57:15,958
if it were only a night

940
00:57:19,083 --> 00:57:21,375
not to sea? — thunder claps

941
00:57:21,958 --> 00:57:23,250
to sea!

942
00:57:23,875 --> 00:57:26,250
To scrooge's horror,
looking back

943
00:57:26,333 --> 00:57:28,208
he saw the last of the land

944
00:57:28,333 --> 00:57:31,750
and his ears were deafened
by the thundering of water

945
00:57:31,875 --> 00:57:34,042
as it rolled and roared.

946
00:57:34,250 --> 00:57:36,875
Man: Mind yourself, Harry!
Don't drop the Turkey!

947
00:57:37,708 --> 00:57:40,375
Narrator: Built upon
a dismal reef of sunken rocks

948
00:57:40,458 --> 00:57:43,083
on which the waters
chafed and dashed

949
00:57:43,167 --> 00:57:45,500
there stood
a solitaiy lighthouse...

950
00:57:45,583 --> 00:57:47,292
Man: There's Christmas for you!

951
00:57:47,458 --> 00:57:50,875
But even here,
eve/y man among them

952
00:57:50,958 --> 00:57:53,167
hummed a Christmas tune!

953
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,083
Again the ghost sped on

954
00:57:57,167 --> 00:57:59,625
above the black
and heaving sea...

955
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,625
Distant voices sing

956
00:58:02,750 --> 00:58:05,667
until a light shone
from the window of a house

957
00:58:05,750 --> 00:58:08,250
and swiftly,
they advanced to wards it

958
00:58:08,583 --> 00:58:10,292
loud laughter

959
00:58:10,875 --> 00:58:12,750
man laughs and sighs

960
00:58:12,875 --> 00:58:17,125
it was a great surprise to
scrooge to hear a hearty laugh.

961
00:58:17,667 --> 00:58:19,833
It was a much greater surprise
to scrooge

962
00:58:19,917 --> 00:58:22,500
to recognise it
as his own nephew's

963
00:58:22,625 --> 00:58:27,000
and to find himself in a bright,
diy, gleaming room.

964
00:58:28,042 --> 00:58:30,583
Woman: Clara, my dear,
what a lovely lunch!

965
00:58:32,958 --> 00:58:35,042
Narrator: ”ha —ha —ha! ”

966
00:58:35,750 --> 00:58:39,500
Laughed Fred ”ha —ha —ha —ho! ”

967
00:58:41,333 --> 00:58:46,333
It is a fair, even—handed
noble adjustment of things

968
00:58:46,667 --> 00:58:49,833
that while there is infection
in disease and sorrow

969
00:58:49,917 --> 00:58:53,917
there is nothing in the world
so irresistibly contagious

970
00:58:54,042 --> 00:58:56,750
as laughter and good humour.

971
00:58:56,875 --> 00:58:58,625
Woman laughs

972
00:58:59,125 --> 00:59:01,458
Fred: He said that Christmas
was a humbug!

973
00:59:01,542 --> 00:59:03,125
And he believed it too.

974
00:59:03,708 --> 00:59:06,042
Clara: More shame for him, Fred.

975
00:59:06,333 --> 00:59:08,917
Fred: He's a comical
old fellow, that's the truth

976
00:59:09,333 --> 00:59:11,667
and not so pleasant
as he might be.

977
00:59:11,792 --> 00:59:14,958
However, his offenses
carry their own punishment

978
00:59:15,042 --> 00:59:16,792
and I have nothing to say
against him.

979
00:59:16,875 --> 00:59:18,667
Clara: I'm sure he is very rich.

980
00:59:18,750 --> 00:59:20,917
At least, you always tell me so.

981
00:59:21,417 --> 00:59:23,667
Fred:
His wealth is of no use to him.

982
00:59:23,833 --> 00:59:25,750
He doesn't make
any good with it.

983
00:59:25,875 --> 00:59:27,958
He doesn't make himself
comfortable with it.

984
00:59:28,250 --> 00:59:30,208
He hasn't the satisfaction
of thinking...

985
00:59:30,333 --> 00:59:32,000
He chuckles ...That he is ever

986
00:59:32,083 --> 00:59:34,000
going to benefit us with it.

987
00:59:34,542 --> 00:59:37,333
Clara: Oh...
I have no Patience with him.

988
00:59:37,417 --> 00:59:38,583
Fred: Oh, I have.

989
00:59:38,917 --> 00:59:40,250
I'm sorry for him!

990
00:59:40,458 --> 00:59:42,500
Couldn't be angry with him
if I tried.

991
00:59:42,917 --> 00:59:44,750
Who suffers by his ill whims?

992
00:59:44,875 --> 00:59:46,708
Himself, always.

993
00:59:47,042 --> 00:59:49,750
Here, he takes it into his head
to dislike us

994
00:59:49,833 --> 00:59:51,625
and he won't come
and dine with us.

995
00:59:51,708 --> 00:59:53,083
What's the consequence?

996
00:59:53,875 --> 00:59:55,583
He doesn't lose
much of a dinner.

997
00:59:56,333 --> 00:59:58,000
Clara scoffs indeed?

998
00:59:58,417 --> 01:00:01,042
I think he loses
a very good dinner.

999
01:00:03,083 --> 01:00:05,750
Fred:
Well, I'm very glad to hear it!

1000
01:00:05,833 --> 01:00:08,542
Because I haven't great faith
in these young housekeepers.

1001
01:00:09,208 --> 01:00:10,625
What do you say, topper?

1002
01:00:10,875 --> 01:00:12,875
Narrator: Topper had clearly
got his eye on

1003
01:00:12,958 --> 01:00:14,083
one of the ladies

1004
01:00:14,167 --> 01:00:17,708
for he answered that a bachelor
was a wretched outcast

1005
01:00:17,833 --> 01:00:21,208
who had no right to express
an opinion on the subject

1006
01:00:21,833 --> 01:00:24,292
Fred re veiled in another laugh

1007
01:00:24,625 --> 01:00:27,917
and as it was impossible
to keep the infection off..

1008
01:00:28,042 --> 01:00:29,500
They laugh

1009
01:00:30,083 --> 01:00:32,958
Fred: A merry Christmas and
a happy new year to the old man.

1010
01:00:33,792 --> 01:00:36,417
He wouldn't take it from me,
but he may have it.

1011
01:00:37,042 --> 01:00:40,542
Let us make a toast
to uncle scrooge!

1012
01:00:47,250 --> 01:00:49,417
Fred laughs and sighs

1013
01:00:52,417 --> 01:00:54,042
woman:
Who's for blind man's buff?

1014
01:00:54,125 --> 01:00:55,542
Scrooge: Here's a new game!

1015
01:00:56,250 --> 01:00:58,458
One half hour, spirit, only one!

1016
01:00:59,208 --> 01:01:01,375
Na r rato r:
Uncle scrooge had imperceptibly

1017
01:01:01,458 --> 01:01:03,792
become so gay and light of heart

1018
01:01:03,875 --> 01:01:07,292
that he would have pledged the
unconscious company in return

1019
01:01:07,417 --> 01:01:09,708
and thanked them
in an inaudible speech

1020
01:01:09,792 --> 01:01:11,708
if the ghost had given him time.

1021
01:01:12,333 --> 01:01:16,042
But the whole scene passed off
in the breath of the last word

1022
01:01:16,625 --> 01:01:18,250
church bell chimes

1023
01:01:22,625 --> 01:01:23,792
ghost of xmas present: Hark.

1024
01:01:25,083 --> 01:01:27,083
My life upon this globe
is very brief.

1025
01:01:27,417 --> 01:01:29,667
Narrator: The chimes
were ringing the three quarters

1026
01:01:29,750 --> 01:01:31,542
past 77 at that moment

1027
01:01:34,417 --> 01:01:36,375
dogs bark

1028
01:01:36,625 --> 01:01:38,083
distant laughter

1029
01:01:43,625 --> 01:01:45,625
Crowd chati'e rs

1030
01:01:46,625 --> 01:01:48,375
man 1: Please leave me alone.

1031
01:01:50,333 --> 01:01:51,973
Man 2: Give it here.
— what are you doing?

1032
01:01:52,542 --> 01:01:54,042
Woman: You want a good time?

1033
01:01:57,250 --> 01:01:58,292
Man 1: You're hurting me!

1034
01:01:58,375 --> 01:01:59,917
Woman laughs
— come here, my darling.

1035
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,000
Man 3: Go on, hit him!

1036
01:02:25,333 --> 01:02:26,333
And again!

1037
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:28,500
Crowd clamou rs

1038
01:02:31,417 --> 01:02:33,375
dogs bark

1039
01:02:37,333 --> 01:02:38,708
man 4: Pull your razor, Jim.

1040
01:02:40,792 --> 01:02:42,958
Man sobs

1041
01:02:51,375 --> 01:02:54,208
Scrooge: Forgive me if I am
not justified in what I ask

1042
01:02:54,292 --> 01:02:57,458
but I see something strange,
and not belonging to yourself

1043
01:02:57,542 --> 01:02:58,792
protruding from your skirts.

1044
01:02:58,875 --> 01:03:01,500
Is it a foot or a claw?
— It might be a claw

1045
01:03:01,583 --> 01:03:03,167
for the flesh there is upon it.

1046
01:03:04,208 --> 01:03:05,208
Look here.

1047
01:03:06,042 --> 01:03:08,083
Narrator:
From the foldings of its robe

1048
01:03:08,208 --> 01:03:09,542
it brought two children.

1049
01:03:10,667 --> 01:03:13,958
Wretched abject, frightful

1050
01:03:14,042 --> 01:03:16,250
hideous, miserable.

1051
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,833
They knelt down at its feet

1052
01:03:19,125 --> 01:03:21,625
and clung upon the outside
of its garment

1053
01:03:21,833 --> 01:03:23,625
ghost of xmas present:
Oh, man, look here!

1054
01:03:24,417 --> 01:03:25,417
Look!

1055
01:03:26,292 --> 01:03:27,625
Look, down here!

1056
01:03:28,250 --> 01:03:30,083
Narrator:
They were a boy and a girl.

1057
01:03:30,792 --> 01:03:33,792
Yellow, meagre, ragged

1058
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,250
sco w/ing, wolfish...

1059
01:03:37,083 --> 01:03:40,500
But prostrate, too,
in their humility.

1060
01:03:41,458 --> 01:03:44,000
Where angels might have
sat enthroned

1061
01:03:44,125 --> 01:03:47,667
devils lurked,
and glared out menacing.

1062
01:03:48,458 --> 01:03:53,167
No change, no degradation,
no pen/ersion of humanity

1063
01:03:53,375 --> 01:03:57,417
has monsters half so horrible
and dread

1064
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,458
scrooge started back, appalled

1065
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,375
having them sho wn to him
in this way

1066
01:04:04,458 --> 01:04:07,667
he tried to say
they were fine children

1067
01:04:07,917 --> 01:04:10,542
but the words choked themselves

1068
01:04:10,625 --> 01:04:14,500
rather than be parties to a lie
of such enormous magnitude.

1069
01:04:15,042 --> 01:04:16,417
Scrooge: Spirit, are they yours?

1070
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:17,934
Ghost of xmas present:
They are man's.

1071
01:04:17,958 --> 01:04:21,000
And they cling to me,
appealing from their fathers.

1072
01:04:21,417 --> 01:04:22,708
This boy is ignorance.

1073
01:04:22,875 --> 01:04:24,208
This girl is want.

1074
01:04:24,500 --> 01:04:26,417
Beware them both,
and all of their degree

1075
01:04:26,500 --> 01:04:28,292
but most of all,
beware this boy...

1076
01:04:30,042 --> 01:04:31,083
Man grunts

1077
01:04:32,542 --> 01:04:35,583
for on his brow I see that
written which is doom

1078
01:04:36,125 --> 01:04:37,625
unless the writing be erased.

1079
01:04:37,708 --> 01:04:39,542
Scrooge:
Have they no refuge or resource?

1080
01:04:39,625 --> 01:04:41,465
Ghost of xmas present:
Are there no workhouses?

1081
01:04:42,917 --> 01:04:45,125
Are there no prisons?
— overseer yells

1082
01:04:47,042 --> 01:04:48,167
whip cracks

1083
01:04:54,917 --> 01:04:57,583
Narrator: The ghost
of Christmas yet to come.

1084
01:04:58,792 --> 01:05:01,917
Eerie moan

1085
01:05:02,042 --> 01:05:04,583
scrooge looked about him
for the ghost

1086
01:05:04,667 --> 01:05:06,083
and saw it not

1087
01:05:06,917 --> 01:05:09,542
as the last stroke
ceased to vibrate

1088
01:05:09,833 --> 01:05:12,667
he remembered the prediction
of old Jacob Marley

1089
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,917
and lifting up his eyes,
beheld a solemn phantom

1090
01:05:17,250 --> 01:05:18,833
draped and hooded

1091
01:05:19,042 --> 01:05:22,875
coming like a mist
along the ground to wards him.

1092
01:05:24,292 --> 01:05:29,583
The phantom s/o w/y,
gra very, silently approached

1093
01:05:30,750 --> 01:05:35,042
when it came,
scrooge bent down upon his knee.

1094
01:05:36,292 --> 01:05:40,125
It was shrouded
in a deep black garment

1095
01:05:40,292 --> 01:05:44,542
which concealed its head
its face, its form

1096
01:05:44,875 --> 01:05:49,917
and left nothing of it visible
save one outstretched hand

1097
01:05:53,125 --> 01:05:54,333
scrooge: I am in the presence

1098
01:05:54,417 --> 01:05:56,458
of the ghost of Christmas
yet to come?

1099
01:05:56,792 --> 01:05:58,708
Narrator:
The spirit answered not

1100
01:05:58,792 --> 01:06:01,958
but pointed downward
with its hand

1101
01:06:02,292 --> 01:06:04,167
scrooge: You are about
to show me shadows

1102
01:06:04,250 --> 01:06:05,792
of the things
that have not happened

1103
01:06:05,875 --> 01:06:08,583
but will happen
in the time before us.

1104
01:06:09,417 --> 01:06:10,833
Is that so, spirit?

1105
01:06:12,375 --> 01:06:16,250
Narrator: Although well used
to ghostly company by this time

1106
01:06:16,542 --> 01:06:21,167
scrooge feared the silent shape
so much

1107
01:06:21,458 --> 01:06:24,042
that his legs trembled
beneath him

1108
01:06:24,333 --> 01:06:26,583
and he found
that he could hardly stand

1109
01:06:26,667 --> 01:06:28,500
when he prepared to follow it

1110
01:06:29,042 --> 01:06:30,625
scrooge: I fear you...

1111
01:06:31,125 --> 01:06:33,375
More than any spectre
I have seen.

1112
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,333
But as I know your purpose
is to do me good

1113
01:06:37,417 --> 01:06:40,625
and as I hope to live to be
another man from what I was

1114
01:06:41,625 --> 01:06:43,500
I am prepared
to bear your company

1115
01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:45,667
and do it with a thankful heart.

1116
01:06:47,333 --> 01:06:48,333
Lead on.

1117
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,125
Lead on.

1118
01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:53,750
The night is waning fast...

1119
01:06:54,542 --> 01:06:57,625
And it is precious time to me,
I know.

1120
01:07:13,042 --> 01:07:16,042
Church bells echo

1121
01:07:33,125 --> 01:07:35,917
Narrator: They scarcely seemed
to enter the city

1122
01:07:36,125 --> 01:07:38,625
but there they were,
in the heart of it

1123
01:07:38,708 --> 01:07:41,792
amongst the merchants,
who hurried up and down

1124
01:07:41,875 --> 01:07:44,042
and chinked the money
in their pockets

1125
01:07:44,125 --> 01:07:48,375
and conversed in groups,
as scrooge had seen them often.

1126
01:07:49,292 --> 01:07:52,917
The spirit stopped beside one
little knot of businessmen.

1127
01:07:53,542 --> 01:07:56,500
Cbsen/ing that the hand
was pointed to them

1128
01:07:56,583 --> 01:08:00,292
scrooge advanced
to listen to their talk.

1129
01:08:07,833 --> 01:08:10,458
Man 1: I don't know much
about it, either way.

1130
01:08:10,667 --> 01:08:13,000
I only know he's dead!

1131
01:08:14,375 --> 01:08:15,792
Man 2: When did he die?

1132
01:08:16,083 --> 01:08:19,208
Man 1:
Ooh. Last night, I believe.

1133
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,333
Man 3: Why?
What was the matter with him?

1134
01:08:23,083 --> 01:08:25,583
I thought he'd never die.

1135
01:08:26,542 --> 01:08:27,750
Man 2: God knows!

1136
01:08:28,792 --> 01:08:30,792
Man 3:
What has he done with his money?

1137
01:08:32,292 --> 01:08:34,292
Man 2: Well, I haven't heard.

1138
01:08:34,750 --> 01:08:36,917
Left it to his company, perhaps.

1139
01:08:37,667 --> 01:08:41,250
He hasn't left it to me.
That's all I know.

1140
01:08:42,417 --> 01:08:46,000
Man 1: Well, it's likely to be
a very cheap funeral

1141
01:08:46,333 --> 01:08:50,625
for upon my life, I don't know
of anybody to go to it.

1142
01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,458
Man 1 guffaws

1143
01:08:52,583 --> 01:08:55,667
suppose we make up a party
and volunteer?

1144
01:08:56,583 --> 01:08:58,417
I don't mind going

1145
01:08:59,042 --> 01:09:01,167
if a lunch is provided

1146
01:09:01,625 --> 01:09:03,458
but I must be fed.

1147
01:09:03,917 --> 01:09:05,750
Man 2 laughs

1148
01:09:08,083 --> 01:09:10,792
narrator: Scrooge was at first
inclined to be surprised

1149
01:09:10,875 --> 01:09:13,875
that the spirit should attach
importance to conversations

1150
01:09:13,958 --> 01:09:15,500
apparently so trivial

1151
01:09:16,125 --> 01:09:19,292
but feeling assured that they
must have some hidden purpose

1152
01:09:19,458 --> 01:09:22,958
he set himself to consider
what it was likely to be.

1153
01:09:23,750 --> 01:09:27,250
But nothing doubting that
to whomsoe ver they applied

1154
01:09:27,333 --> 01:09:31,083
they had some latent moral
for his own improvement

1155
01:09:34,083 --> 01:09:35,917
dog barks — accordion plays

1156
01:09:36,042 --> 01:09:37,750
they left the busy scene

1157
01:09:37,833 --> 01:09:40,208
and went into an obscure
part of the town

1158
01:09:40,292 --> 01:09:42,833
where scrooge had never
penetrated before.

1159
01:09:42,917 --> 01:09:44,667
Man:
You've had the pipe long enough.

1160
01:09:44,750 --> 01:09:45,833
Pass it on.

1161
01:09:45,917 --> 01:09:47,333
Narrator: The ways were foul...

1162
01:09:48,125 --> 01:09:49,375
Man: Cut your liver out!

1163
01:09:49,833 --> 01:09:52,042
The shops and houses wretched

1164
01:09:52,208 --> 01:09:54,500
the people half—naked drunken

1165
01:09:54,667 --> 01:09:57,000
slipshod ugly.

1166
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,542
Alleys and arch ways,
like so many cesspools

1167
01:10:00,625 --> 01:10:04,958
disgorged their offenses
of smell and dirt and life

1168
01:10:05,042 --> 01:10:06,708
upon the straggling streets.

1169
01:10:06,792 --> 01:10:08,458
Woman: We don't talk to you lot.

1170
01:10:08,792 --> 01:10:11,708
Narrator: The whole quarter
reeked with crime

1171
01:10:12,167 --> 01:10:14,375
with filth, and miseiy.

1172
01:10:15,083 --> 01:10:17,667
Far in this den
of infamous resort

1173
01:10:17,750 --> 01:10:19,500
there was a lo w—bro wed
beetling shop

1174
01:10:19,583 --> 01:10:21,375
below a penthouse roof

1175
01:10:21,458 --> 01:10:24,125
where iron, old rags, bottles

1176
01:10:24,208 --> 01:10:27,083
bones and greasy offal
were bought

1177
01:10:27,667 --> 01:10:31,125
sitting in among the wares
he dealt in, by a stove

1178
01:10:31,250 --> 01:10:33,500
was a grey—haired rascal

1179
01:10:33,792 --> 01:10:36,583
nearly 70 years of age.
— door bell jingles

1180
01:10:36,708 --> 01:10:39,750
scrooge and the phantom came
into the presence of this man

1181
01:10:39,833 --> 01:10:42,625
just as a housekeeper
with a heavy bundle

1182
01:10:42,792 --> 01:10:44,375
slunk into the shop.

1183
01:10:45,167 --> 01:10:48,500
Maid: Every person has a right
to take care of themselves.

1184
01:10:48,583 --> 01:10:50,250
He always did.

1185
01:10:50,458 --> 01:10:53,417
Who's the worse for the loss
of a few things like these?

1186
01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:55,708
If he wanted to keep 'em
after he was dead

1187
01:10:55,792 --> 01:10:57,625
a wicked old screw

1188
01:10:57,875 --> 01:11:00,167
why wasn't it natural
in his lifetime?

1189
01:11:00,458 --> 01:11:02,625
If it had been,
he's have had somebody

1190
01:11:02,750 --> 01:11:05,667
to look after him
when he was struck with death

1191
01:11:05,875 --> 01:11:10,458
instead of lying gasping
out his last, alone by himself.

1192
01:11:10,625 --> 01:11:13,500
Joe: It's the truest ever word
that was spoke.

1193
01:11:13,625 --> 01:11:15,000
It's a judgment on him.

1194
01:11:15,458 --> 01:11:17,298
Maid: Open the bundle,
old Joe, and let me know

1195
01:11:17,333 --> 01:11:18,375
the value of it.

1196
01:11:18,458 --> 01:11:20,500
Joe:
What... what do you call this?

1197
01:11:20,583 --> 01:11:22,792
Bed—curtains? — bed—curtains.

1198
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:24,542
Joe laughs wheezily

1199
01:11:24,625 --> 01:11:27,125
you don't mean to say
you took 'em down

1200
01:11:27,208 --> 01:11:29,500
rings and all,
with him lying there?

1201
01:11:29,583 --> 01:11:32,167
He cackles — yes, I do. Why not?

1202
01:11:32,250 --> 01:11:34,375
Joe: You were born
to make your fortune

1203
01:11:34,458 --> 01:11:36,375
and you'll certainly do it.

1204
01:11:36,583 --> 01:11:37,833
Ooh...

1205
01:11:37,917 --> 01:11:40,792
Maid: You may look through
that shirt till your eyes ache

1206
01:11:40,875 --> 01:11:44,333
but you won't find a hole in it,
nor a threadbare place.

1207
01:11:44,875 --> 01:11:47,625
It's the best he had,
and a fine one too.

1208
01:11:47,708 --> 01:11:49,917
They'd have wasted it,
if it hadn't been for me.

1209
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,875
Joe: W...
What do you mean, wasting of it?

1210
01:11:52,958 --> 01:11:56,042
Maid: Putting it on him
to be buried in, to be sure!

1211
01:11:56,500 --> 01:12:00,292
Somebody was fool enough to
do it, but I took it off again.

1212
01:12:01,333 --> 01:12:04,083
Oh, this is the end of it,
you see.

1213
01:12:04,333 --> 01:12:07,250
He frightened everyone away
from him when he was alive

1214
01:12:07,333 --> 01:12:10,792
to profit us when he was dead!
She laughs

1215
01:12:14,208 --> 01:12:16,292
scrooge: If there is
any person in the town

1216
01:12:16,375 --> 01:12:18,792
who feels emotion
caused by this man's death

1217
01:12:19,167 --> 01:12:22,917
show that person to me, spirit,
I beseech you.

1218
01:12:31,792 --> 01:12:36,292
♪ Good people, all ♪

1219
01:12:36,750 --> 01:12:41,250
♪ this Christmas time ♪

1220
01:12:41,875 --> 01:12:43,792
Baby cries

1221
01:12:47,375 --> 01:12:49,625
woman: She's worried
to death by it all.

1222
01:12:50,375 --> 01:12:53,333
But they had to borrow,
for the kiddies.

1223
01:12:56,167 --> 01:12:59,125
Narrator: The phantom
spread its dark robe before him

1224
01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:00,875
for a moment like a wing

1225
01:13:00,958 --> 01:13:04,500
and withdrawing it,
revealed a room by daylight

1226
01:13:04,667 --> 01:13:06,917
where a mother
and her children were.

1227
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,542
She was expecting someone,
and with anxious eagerness

1228
01:13:16,625 --> 01:13:18,417
for she walked
up and down the room

1229
01:13:18,500 --> 01:13:21,167
started at eve/y sound
looked out from the window

1230
01:13:21,250 --> 01:13:22,667
glanced at the clock.

1231
01:13:23,833 --> 01:13:26,792
At length, the long—expected
knock was heard

1232
01:13:26,917 --> 01:13:29,583
she hurried to the door,
and met her husband

1233
01:13:29,667 --> 01:13:32,625
a man whose face
was care worn and depressed

1234
01:13:32,708 --> 01:13:34,125
though he was young.

1235
01:13:34,542 --> 01:13:37,583
There was a remarkable
expression in it no w

1236
01:13:37,667 --> 01:13:42,417
a kind of serious delight,
of which he felt ashamed

1237
01:13:42,625 --> 01:13:45,375
and which he struggled
to repress.

1238
01:13:46,917 --> 01:13:48,417
Woman: Is it good or bad?

1239
01:13:49,167 --> 01:13:50,250
Man: Bad.

1240
01:13:51,417 --> 01:13:53,333
Woman sighs we are quite ruined.

1241
01:13:54,375 --> 01:13:55,417
Man: No.

1242
01:13:55,583 --> 01:13:57,250
There is hope yet, Caroline.

1243
01:13:58,625 --> 01:14:00,417
Caroline:
If he relents, there is.

1244
01:14:01,250 --> 01:14:03,000
Nothing is past hope

1245
01:14:03,333 --> 01:14:05,417
if such a miracle has happened.

1246
01:14:06,458 --> 01:14:08,000
Man: He is past relenting.

1247
01:14:09,167 --> 01:14:10,292
He is dead.

1248
01:14:10,583 --> 01:14:13,083
Narrator: She was a mild
and patient creature

1249
01:14:13,167 --> 01:14:15,042
if her face spoke truth

1250
01:14:15,458 --> 01:14:19,583
but she was thankful in her soul
to hear it

1251
01:14:19,667 --> 01:14:22,500
and she said so,
with clasped hands.

1252
01:14:23,208 --> 01:14:25,875
She prayed forgiveness
the next moment

1253
01:14:26,667 --> 01:14:27,917
and was soriy.

1254
01:14:28,333 --> 01:14:30,625
Caroline: To whom shall
our debt be transferred?

1255
01:14:32,042 --> 01:14:33,083
Man: I don't know.

1256
01:14:33,708 --> 01:14:36,458
But before that time,
we shall be ready with the money

1257
01:14:36,833 --> 01:14:39,833
and even though we were not,
it would be bad fortune indeed

1258
01:14:39,917 --> 01:14:42,708
to find so merciless a creditor
in his successor.

1259
01:14:44,375 --> 01:14:46,792
We shall sleep tonight
with light hearts, Caroline.

1260
01:15:08,417 --> 01:15:10,042
Scrooge:
Let me see some tenderness

1261
01:15:10,125 --> 01:15:11,333
connected with the death.

1262
01:15:20,250 --> 01:15:22,625
Narrator: They entered poor
Bob cratchit's house

1263
01:15:22,708 --> 01:15:26,000
and found the mother and the
children seated round the fire.

1264
01:15:26,458 --> 01:15:28,833
Quiet very quiet

1265
01:15:29,375 --> 01:15:32,708
the noisy little cratchits
were as still as statues

1266
01:15:32,792 --> 01:15:33,875
in one corner.

1267
01:15:41,625 --> 01:15:42,625
Mrs cratchit sighs

1268
01:15:42,667 --> 01:15:44,958
the mother laid her work
upon the table

1269
01:15:45,250 --> 01:15:47,750
and put her hand up to her face.

1270
01:15:48,042 --> 01:15:49,667
Mrs cratchit:
Colour hurts my eyes.

1271
01:15:50,625 --> 01:15:52,917
It makes them weak
by candlelight

1272
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:55,500
and I wouldn't show weak eyes
to your father

1273
01:15:55,583 --> 01:15:57,292
when he comes home,
for the world.

1274
01:15:58,750 --> 01:16:00,458
It must be near his time.

1275
01:16:00,667 --> 01:16:01,917
Martha: Past it, rather.

1276
01:16:02,417 --> 01:16:05,083
But I think he's walked
a little slower than he used

1277
01:16:05,167 --> 01:16:07,208
these few last evenings, mother.

1278
01:16:07,875 --> 01:16:10,125
Mrs cratchit: I have known him
walk with tiny Tim

1279
01:16:10,208 --> 01:16:12,500
upon his shoulder,
very fast indeed.

1280
01:16:12,833 --> 01:16:14,667
Martha: And so have I. Often.

1281
01:16:14,750 --> 01:16:16,208
Mrs cratchit:
His father loved him so

1282
01:16:16,292 --> 01:16:17,625
that it was no trouble...

1283
01:16:18,125 --> 01:16:20,917
Ah! And there is your father
at the door!

1284
01:16:24,042 --> 01:16:26,583
Narrator: Two young cratchits
got upon his knees

1285
01:16:26,750 --> 01:16:28,875
and laid each child
a little cheek

1286
01:16:28,958 --> 01:16:30,292
against his face.

1287
01:16:30,583 --> 01:16:32,083
Girl: Don't mind it, father.

1288
01:16:32,417 --> 01:16:34,083
Boy: Don't be grieved.

1289
01:16:36,208 --> 01:16:38,083
Narrator:
Bob was very cheen'u/ with them

1290
01:16:38,167 --> 01:16:40,375
and spoke pleasantly
to all the family.

1291
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,208
He looked at the work
upon the table

1292
01:16:43,792 --> 01:16:46,792
the shroud that would
clothe his son

1293
01:16:47,417 --> 01:16:50,125
and praised the industiy
and speed

1294
01:16:50,208 --> 01:16:52,333
of mrs cratchit and the girls.

1295
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:57,167
”They would be done
long before Sunday, ” he said

1296
01:16:57,792 --> 01:16:59,792
mrs cratchit:
You went today then, Robert?

1297
01:17:00,125 --> 01:17:01,292
Cratchit: Yes, my dear.

1298
01:17:02,958 --> 01:17:04,375
I wish you could have gone.

1299
01:17:04,750 --> 01:17:07,000
It would've done you good
to see how green a place it is

1300
01:17:07,083 --> 01:17:08,125
where he will lay.

1301
01:17:09,625 --> 01:17:11,083
But you'll see it often.

1302
01:17:12,833 --> 01:17:14,083
I promised him...

1303
01:17:15,042 --> 01:17:17,083
That I would walk there
on a Sunday.

1304
01:17:17,625 --> 01:17:19,792
Narrator:
He broke down all at once.

1305
01:17:20,292 --> 01:17:21,667
He couldn't help it

1306
01:17:34,250 --> 01:17:37,250
He left the room, and went
upstairs to the room above

1307
01:17:37,375 --> 01:17:40,625
which was lighted cheen'u/ly,
and hung with Christmas.

1308
01:17:48,833 --> 01:17:51,708
There was a chair set close
beside the child

1309
01:17:52,042 --> 01:17:55,042
and there were signs of someone
having been there lately.

1310
01:17:56,292 --> 01:17:58,500
Poor Bob sat down in it

1311
01:17:59,208 --> 01:18:02,875
and when he had thought a little
and composed himself

1312
01:18:03,625 --> 01:18:05,458
he kissed the little face.

1313
01:18:07,750 --> 01:18:10,083
Cratchit:
My little, little child...

1314
01:18:11,708 --> 01:18:13,542
My little child.

1315
01:18:29,667 --> 01:18:32,042
Narrator: They drew
about the fire, and talked

1316
01:18:32,167 --> 01:18:34,458
the girls and mother
working still.

1317
01:18:35,292 --> 01:18:38,125
Bob told them
of the extraordinaiy kindness

1318
01:18:38,250 --> 01:18:41,667
of mr Fred whom he had
scarcely seen but once

1319
01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:44,958
and who, meeting him
in the street that day

1320
01:18:45,875 --> 01:18:48,458
and seeing that he looked
a little subdued

1321
01:18:48,875 --> 01:18:50,292
asked after him.

1322
01:18:51,375 --> 01:18:53,167
Cratchit:
Just a little down, you know.

1323
01:18:54,250 --> 01:18:58,000
On which, for he is the
pleasantest—spoken gentleman

1324
01:18:58,083 --> 01:18:59,167
you ever heard...

1325
01:18:59,708 --> 01:19:01,500
Fred: What has happened
to distress you?

1326
01:19:04,292 --> 01:19:05,417
Cratchit: I told him.

1327
01:19:07,667 --> 01:19:10,375
"I am heartily sorry for it,
mr cratchit

1328
01:19:10,583 --> 01:19:13,667
and heartily sorry
for your good wife.

1329
01:19:18,042 --> 01:19:20,583
If I can be of service
to you in any way," he said

1330
01:19:20,667 --> 01:19:23,250
giving me his card,
"that's where I live.

1331
01:19:24,333 --> 01:19:25,625
Pray, come to me."

1332
01:19:36,792 --> 01:19:40,417
Now, it really seemed as if
he had known our tiny Tim

1333
01:19:40,708 --> 01:19:42,000
and felt with us.

1334
01:19:43,417 --> 01:19:46,042
I shouldn't be at all surprised,
Mark what I say

1335
01:19:46,333 --> 01:19:48,917
if he got Peter
a better situation.

1336
01:19:49,083 --> 01:19:51,542
Mrs cratchit:
Oh! Only hear that, Peter!

1337
01:19:51,792 --> 01:19:53,417
Cratchit:
But however and whenever

1338
01:19:53,500 --> 01:19:54,958
we part from one another

1339
01:19:55,042 --> 01:19:59,625
I am sure, we shall none of us
forget poor tiny Tim, shall we?

1340
01:20:00,375 --> 01:20:03,000
Or this first parting
that there was among us.

1341
01:20:03,083 --> 01:20:04,292
All: No, father.

1342
01:20:04,417 --> 01:20:05,917
Cratchit: And I know, my dears

1343
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:09,333
that when we recollect how
patient and how mild he was

1344
01:20:09,417 --> 01:20:11,083
although he was a little...

1345
01:20:12,208 --> 01:20:13,542
Little child...

1346
01:20:14,083 --> 01:20:16,583
We shall not quarrel
easily among ourselves

1347
01:20:16,667 --> 01:20:20,083
and forget poor tiny Tim
in doing it.

1348
01:20:20,417 --> 01:20:21,708
All: No, never, father.

1349
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,542
Cratchit: I am very happy.

1350
01:20:23,625 --> 01:20:24,625
He sniffs

1351
01:20:25,458 --> 01:20:27,125
I am very happy.

1352
01:20:35,958 --> 01:20:37,750
Scrooge:
Spectre, something informs me

1353
01:20:37,833 --> 01:20:39,792
that our parting moment
is at hand.

1354
01:20:40,792 --> 01:20:42,750
I know it, but I know not how.

1355
01:20:45,542 --> 01:20:48,750
Tell me what man that was

1356
01:20:48,833 --> 01:20:50,292
whom we saw lying dead.

1357
01:20:52,292 --> 01:20:54,375
Thunder cracks

1358
01:21:06,542 --> 01:21:08,500
Narrator: The spirit
stood among the graves

1359
01:21:08,667 --> 01:21:10,667
and pointed down to one.

1360
01:21:11,625 --> 01:21:15,542
Scrooge advanced to wards it
trembling.

1361
01:21:16,375 --> 01:21:18,250
Scrooge: Before I draw nearer
to that stone

1362
01:21:18,333 --> 01:21:20,583
to which you point,
answer me one question.

1363
01:21:21,250 --> 01:21:23,792
Are these the shadows
of the things that will be

1364
01:21:23,875 --> 01:21:26,958
or are they shadows of things
that may be, only?

1365
01:21:27,417 --> 01:21:30,375
Narrator: Still the ghost
pointed downward to the grave

1366
01:21:30,458 --> 01:21:31,792
by which it stood

1367
01:21:31,875 --> 01:21:34,208
scrooge: Men's courses
will foreshadow certain ends

1368
01:21:34,292 --> 01:21:36,500
to which, if persevered in,
they must lead

1369
01:21:36,625 --> 01:21:38,958
but if the courses
be departed from

1370
01:21:39,167 --> 01:21:40,750
the ends will change.

1371
01:21:40,958 --> 01:21:43,500
Say it is thus
with what you show me.

1372
01:21:44,667 --> 01:21:47,167
Narrator: The spirit
was immovable as ever.

1373
01:21:47,917 --> 01:21:51,667
Scrooge crept to wards it
trembling as he went

1374
01:21:52,417 --> 01:21:54,708
scrooge: Am I that man
who lay upon the bed?

1375
01:21:55,875 --> 01:21:57,417
Narrator: Fol/o wing the finger

1376
01:21:57,500 --> 01:22:00,792
read upon the stone
of the neglected grave

1377
01:22:01,167 --> 01:22:02,792
his own name...

1378
01:22:04,125 --> 01:22:06,875
Ebenezer scrooge.

1379
01:22:09,042 --> 01:22:10,583
Thunder cracks

1380
01:22:17,750 --> 01:22:18,792
Joe laughs

1381
01:22:18,875 --> 01:22:22,167
I hope he didn't die
of anything catching!

1382
01:22:25,833 --> 01:22:27,250
Man: We are quite ruined.

1383
01:22:29,750 --> 01:22:32,167
Narrator: The finger pointed
from the grave

1384
01:22:32,250 --> 01:22:34,875
to him and back again.

1385
01:22:36,333 --> 01:22:38,000
Scrooge: No, spirit! No...

1386
01:22:39,667 --> 01:22:40,667
No!

1387
01:22:41,250 --> 01:22:44,208
Spirit, hear me.
I am not the man I was.

1388
01:22:46,042 --> 01:22:49,042
Why show me this,
if I am past all hope?

1389
01:22:49,333 --> 01:22:52,792
Good spirit, assure me that
I yet may change these shadows

1390
01:22:52,875 --> 01:22:55,083
that you have shown me,
by an altered life.

1391
01:22:55,167 --> 01:22:57,208
I will honour Christmas
in my heart

1392
01:22:57,292 --> 01:22:58,875
and try to keep it all year.

1393
01:22:58,958 --> 01:23:01,667
I will live in the past,
the present, and the future.

1394
01:23:01,792 --> 01:23:05,375
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.

1395
01:23:05,458 --> 01:23:08,250
I will not shut out the lessons
that they teach.

1396
01:23:10,375 --> 01:23:13,375
Tell me I may sponge away
the writing on this stone!

1397
01:23:14,208 --> 01:23:17,583
Narrator: In his agony,
he clasped the spectral body.

1398
01:23:17,917 --> 01:23:19,333
It sought to free itself

1399
01:23:19,417 --> 01:23:22,250
but he was strong in
his entreaty, and detained it

1400
01:23:22,625 --> 01:23:25,583
the spirit, stronger yet
repulsed him.

1401
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:30,542
Holding up his hands in a last
prayer to have his fate reversed

1402
01:23:31,083 --> 01:23:33,625
he saw an alteration
in the phantom's hood

1403
01:23:33,750 --> 01:23:36,292
it shrank, and collapsed

1404
01:23:36,375 --> 01:23:38,458
down into a bedpost

1405
01:23:38,708 --> 01:23:40,958
scrooge sobs

1406
01:23:45,875 --> 01:23:48,292
scrooge: Live in the past,
the present, and the future.

1407
01:23:48,375 --> 01:23:51,333
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.

1408
01:23:51,417 --> 01:23:54,042
I will not shut out
the lessons that they teach!

1409
01:23:55,250 --> 01:23:56,792
Birds sing

1410
01:23:57,417 --> 01:23:58,667
oh, Jacob Marley!

1411
01:23:59,458 --> 01:24:01,875
Heaven, and the christmastime
be praised for this.

1412
01:24:02,375 --> 01:24:05,375
I shall kneel, old Jacob,
on my knees.

1413
01:24:06,750 --> 01:24:07,750
Ah!

1414
01:24:08,208 --> 01:24:09,708
They are not torn down.

1415
01:24:10,917 --> 01:24:12,375
They are not torn down!

1416
01:24:13,667 --> 01:24:16,208
Rings and all. They are here...

1417
01:24:17,958 --> 01:24:19,125
I am here!

1418
01:24:19,958 --> 01:24:22,167
The shadows of the things
that would have been

1419
01:24:22,250 --> 01:24:23,542
may be dispelled.

1420
01:24:23,667 --> 01:24:24,667
They will be!

1421
01:24:25,125 --> 01:24:26,292
I know they will.

1422
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:37,417
I don't know what to do!

1423
01:24:38,750 --> 01:24:41,917
I am as... light as a feather!

1424
01:24:42,208 --> 01:24:43,875
I am as happy as an angel!

1425
01:24:44,083 --> 01:24:48,000
I am as merry as a schoolboy,
I am as giddy as a drunken man!

1426
01:24:48,958 --> 01:24:51,167
A merry Christmas to everyone!

1427
01:24:52,375 --> 01:24:55,458
A happy new year
to all the world!

1428
01:24:56,792 --> 01:24:57,958
Hello there!

1429
01:24:58,333 --> 01:24:59,333
Woo!

1430
01:25:00,125 --> 01:25:02,042
There's the saucepan
that the gruel was in!

1431
01:25:02,125 --> 01:25:04,708
There's the corner the ghost
of Christmas present sat.

1432
01:25:04,792 --> 01:25:07,792
There's the window where
I saw the wandering spirits!

1433
01:25:07,917 --> 01:25:10,917
It's all right, it's all true.
It all happened!

1434
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,958
He laughs

1435
01:25:14,917 --> 01:25:16,667
I don't know
what day of the month it is

1436
01:25:16,750 --> 01:25:18,792
I don't know how long
I've been among the spirits.

1437
01:25:18,917 --> 01:25:19,958
I don't know anything!

1438
01:25:20,750 --> 01:25:22,875
I'm... quite a baby.

1439
01:25:24,250 --> 01:25:26,000
Never mind. I don't care!

1440
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:28,500
I'd rather be a baby!

1441
01:25:29,708 --> 01:25:31,375
Hello, whoop!

1442
01:25:31,583 --> 01:25:32,708
Hello there!

1443
01:25:33,542 --> 01:25:35,500
Narrator: Running
to the window, he opened it

1444
01:25:35,583 --> 01:25:36,958
and put out his head

1445
01:25:37,167 --> 01:25:39,333
no fog, no mist

1446
01:25:39,458 --> 01:25:43,250
clear, bright sweet fresh air!

1447
01:25:43,333 --> 01:25:46,917
Meriy bells. Ch, glorious!

1448
01:25:47,292 --> 01:25:48,708
Glorious!

1449
01:25:49,042 --> 01:25:50,708
Scrooge:
What's today, my fine fellow?

1450
01:25:50,792 --> 01:25:52,500
Boy: Today? Why, Christmas day.

1451
01:25:52,792 --> 01:25:55,542
Scrooge: It's Christmas day!
I haven't missed it.

1452
01:25:56,042 --> 01:25:57,792
The spirits have done it
all in one night!

1453
01:25:57,875 --> 01:25:59,684
They can do anything they like,
of course they can.

1454
01:25:59,708 --> 01:26:02,292
Of course they can...
Hello, my fine fellow!

1455
01:26:02,375 --> 01:26:04,792
Do you know the poulterer's,
in the next street but one?

1456
01:26:04,917 --> 01:26:06,292
Boy: I should hope I did.

1457
01:26:06,833 --> 01:26:09,125
Scrooge: An intelligent boy!
A remarkable boy!

1458
01:26:09,375 --> 01:26:11,333
Do you know whether
they've sold the prize Turkey

1459
01:26:11,417 --> 01:26:12,542
that was hanging up there?

1460
01:26:12,625 --> 01:26:14,333
Not the little prize Turkey.
The big one?

1461
01:26:14,417 --> 01:26:15,417
Boy: What...

1462
01:26:15,458 --> 01:26:17,375
The one as big as me?
— what a delightful boy!

1463
01:26:17,458 --> 01:26:18,792
It's a pleasure to talk to him.

1464
01:26:18,917 --> 01:26:19,958
Yes, my buck!

1465
01:26:20,042 --> 01:26:22,000
Boy: It's hanging there now.
— Is it?

1466
01:26:22,083 --> 01:26:23,083
Go and buy it.

1467
01:26:23,125 --> 01:26:24,125
Boy: Walker!

1468
01:26:24,167 --> 01:26:25,393
Scrooge:
No, no, I am in earnest.

1469
01:26:25,417 --> 01:26:27,667
Go and buy it,
and tell them to bring it here

1470
01:26:27,750 --> 01:26:29,875
that I may give them
the direction where to take it.

1471
01:26:29,958 --> 01:26:31,976
Come back with the man,
and I'll give you a shilling.

1472
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,167
Come back with him
in less than five minutes

1473
01:26:34,292 --> 01:26:35,583
and I'll give you half a crown.

1474
01:26:38,083 --> 01:26:39,625
I'll send it to Bob cratchit's!

1475
01:26:40,250 --> 01:26:41,792
He shan't know who sends it.

1476
01:26:47,958 --> 01:26:49,958
It's twice the size of tiny Tim.

1477
01:26:54,250 --> 01:26:56,375
Faint street chati'er

1478
01:27:03,875 --> 01:27:06,833
Narrator: He dressed himself
all in his best

1479
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:09,792
and at last,
got out into the streets.

1480
01:27:10,833 --> 01:27:13,708
He had not gone far,
when coming on to wards him

1481
01:27:13,792 --> 01:27:15,083
he beheld the gentlemen

1482
01:27:15,167 --> 01:27:17,875
who had accosted him
the day before, and said

1483
01:27:17,958 --> 01:27:20,083
”scrooge and Marley 's,
I believe. ”

1484
01:27:21,083 --> 01:27:22,667
Scrooge:
Dear sir, how do you do?

1485
01:27:22,792 --> 01:27:24,583
I hope you succeeded yesterday?

1486
01:27:24,917 --> 01:27:26,042
Man: Mr scrooge?

1487
01:27:26,125 --> 01:27:27,250
Scrooge: That is my name

1488
01:27:27,333 --> 01:27:29,250
and I fear it may not be
pleasant to you.

1489
01:27:29,583 --> 01:27:31,292
Allow me to ask your pardon.

1490
01:27:31,625 --> 01:27:33,458
And will you have
the goodness...

1491
01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:36,583
Man: Lord bless me!

1492
01:27:37,250 --> 01:27:39,042
My dear mr scrooge,
are you serious?

1493
01:27:39,125 --> 01:27:40,845
Scrooge: If you please,
not a farthing less.

1494
01:27:40,917 --> 01:27:43,542
A great many back—payments are
included in it, I assure you.

1495
01:27:43,917 --> 01:27:45,250
Will you do me that favour?

1496
01:27:45,333 --> 01:27:47,917
Man: I don't know what to say
to such munificence!

1497
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,375
Scrooge: Don't say anything.
Please, come and see me.

1498
01:27:50,500 --> 01:27:51,792
Will you come and see me?

1499
01:27:51,875 --> 01:27:52,875
Man: We will!

1500
01:27:53,042 --> 01:27:55,542
Scrooge: Thank you.
I am much obliged to you.

1501
01:27:55,625 --> 01:27:57,917
I thank you 50 times. Bless you!

1502
01:27:59,083 --> 01:28:01,875
Narrator: The people were,
by this time, pouring forth

1503
01:28:01,958 --> 01:28:04,667
as he had seen them with
the ghost of Christmas present

1504
01:28:05,750 --> 01:28:07,500
he walked about the streets

1505
01:28:07,625 --> 01:28:10,125
and watched the people
huriying to and fro

1506
01:28:10,333 --> 01:28:14,250
and patted children on the head
and questioned beggars

1507
01:28:14,500 --> 01:28:17,208
and looked down
into the kitchens of houses

1508
01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:19,000
and up to the windows

1509
01:28:19,167 --> 01:28:23,167
and found that eve/ything
could yield him pleasure.

1510
01:28:30,958 --> 01:28:33,750
He had never dreamed
that any walk

1511
01:28:33,833 --> 01:28:34,958
that anything...

1512
01:28:35,292 --> 01:28:38,458
Could give him
so much happiness.

1513
01:28:41,375 --> 01:28:43,083
He laughs

1514
01:28:48,417 --> 01:28:50,542
Narrator: In the afternoon,
he turned his steps

1515
01:28:50,625 --> 01:28:52,333
to wards his nephew's house.

1516
01:28:54,250 --> 01:28:56,292
He passed the door a dozen times

1517
01:28:56,375 --> 01:28:58,833
before he had the courage
to go up and knock.

1518
01:28:59,375 --> 01:29:01,792
But he made a dash, and did it

1519
01:29:06,750 --> 01:29:10,667
he opened the door gently,
and sidled his face in.

1520
01:29:16,292 --> 01:29:18,083
They were looking at the table

1521
01:29:18,417 --> 01:29:20,875
which was spread out
in great array

1522
01:29:21,417 --> 01:29:25,292
for these young housekeepers are
always hen/ous on such points

1523
01:29:25,375 --> 01:29:28,042
and like to see
that eve/ything is right

1524
01:29:28,875 --> 01:29:30,333
Fred: Why, bless my soul!

1525
01:29:30,917 --> 01:29:31,917
Who's that?

1526
01:29:32,958 --> 01:29:34,042
Scrooge: It's I.

1527
01:29:34,208 --> 01:29:35,500
Uncle scrooge.

1528
01:29:36,167 --> 01:29:37,333
I've come to dinner.

1529
01:29:38,042 --> 01:29:39,417
Will you let me in, Fred?

1530
01:29:40,417 --> 01:29:41,833
Fred laughs

1531
01:29:42,292 --> 01:29:43,833
narrator: Let him in?

1532
01:29:44,208 --> 01:29:47,500
It is a mercy
he didn't shake his arm offi

1533
01:29:47,792 --> 01:29:50,500
he was at home in five minutes.

1534
01:29:50,667 --> 01:29:52,542
Nothing could be heart/er.

1535
01:29:53,083 --> 01:29:55,542
Fred's wife
looked just the same.

1536
01:29:55,917 --> 01:29:57,667
So did topper when he came.

1537
01:29:57,875 --> 01:30:00,292
So did the plump lady when
she came.

1538
01:30:00,458 --> 01:30:03,292
So did everyone when they came!

1539
01:30:03,708 --> 01:30:06,208
Wonden'u/ party, wonden'u/ games

1540
01:30:06,292 --> 01:30:08,125
wonden'u/ unanimity

1541
01:30:08,375 --> 01:30:11,375
wonden'u/ happiness!

1542
01:30:25,708 --> 01:30:28,125
But he was early at the office
next morning.

1543
01:30:28,250 --> 01:30:30,417
Ch, he was early there.

1544
01:30:30,917 --> 01:30:33,292
If he could only be there first

1545
01:30:33,458 --> 01:30:35,917
and catch Bob cratchit
coming late!

1546
01:30:36,167 --> 01:30:38,750
That was the thing
he'd set his heart upon.

1547
01:30:38,875 --> 01:30:41,833
And he did it! Yes, he did.

1548
01:30:42,208 --> 01:30:43,917
The clock struck nine...

1549
01:30:44,417 --> 01:30:45,500
No Bob.

1550
01:30:45,833 --> 01:30:47,375
A quarter past..

1551
01:30:47,875 --> 01:30:48,958
No Bob.

1552
01:30:49,125 --> 01:30:52,125
He was a full 78 minutes
and a half

1553
01:30:52,208 --> 01:30:53,625
behind his time.

1554
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,292
Scrooge sat with his door
wide open

1555
01:30:56,375 --> 01:30:58,292
that he might see him enter.

1556
01:30:58,667 --> 01:31:00,917
His hat was off
before he opened the door

1557
01:31:01,042 --> 01:31:02,333
his comforter too.

1558
01:31:02,458 --> 01:31:05,875
He was on his stool in a jifij/,
driving away with his pen

1559
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:08,667
as if he were tiying
to overtake nine 0 'clock.

1560
01:31:09,167 --> 01:31:10,208
Scrooge: Hello.

1561
01:31:10,583 --> 01:31:12,667
What do you mean by coming here
at this time of day?

1562
01:31:12,750 --> 01:31:14,684
Cratchit: I'm very sorry, sir.
I am behind my time.

1563
01:31:14,708 --> 01:31:17,083
Scrooge:
You are. Yes, I think you are.

1564
01:31:17,583 --> 01:31:19,000
Step this way, if you please.

1565
01:31:19,125 --> 01:31:20,833
Cratchit:
I—it's only once a year, sir.

1566
01:31:20,917 --> 01:31:22,125
It shall not be repeated.

1567
01:31:22,208 --> 01:31:24,458
I was making rather merry
yesterday, sir.

1568
01:31:24,542 --> 01:31:26,143
Scrooge: Now,
I'll tell you what, my friend

1569
01:31:26,167 --> 01:31:28,059
I'm not going to stand
this sort of thing any longer

1570
01:31:28,083 --> 01:31:29,167
and therefore...

1571
01:31:30,625 --> 01:31:33,750
And therefore,
I am about to raise your salary.

1572
01:31:34,333 --> 01:31:35,500
Na r rato r: Bob trembled

1573
01:31:35,583 --> 01:31:37,500
and got a little nearer
to the poker.

1574
01:31:37,750 --> 01:31:40,917
He had a momenta/y idea of
knocking scrooge down with it

1575
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,917
holding him, and calling to
the people in the court for help

1576
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:45,333
and a strait— waistcoat

1577
01:31:45,708 --> 01:31:47,083
scrooge: A merry Christmas, Bob.

1578
01:31:47,708 --> 01:31:50,417
A merrier Christmas, Bob,
my good fellow

1579
01:31:50,500 --> 01:31:52,250
than I have given you
for many a year.

1580
01:31:52,375 --> 01:31:53,792
I'll raise your salary

1581
01:31:53,875 --> 01:31:55,958
and endeavour to assist
your struggling family

1582
01:31:56,042 --> 01:31:58,792
and we will discuss your affairs
this very afternoon

1583
01:31:58,875 --> 01:32:01,542
over a Christmas bowl
of smoking bishop, Bob!

1584
01:32:01,625 --> 01:32:02,625
They laugh

1585
01:32:02,708 --> 01:32:04,917
make up the fires,
buy another coalscuttle

1586
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:07,708
before you dot another "I"
Bob cratchit!

1587
01:32:17,125 --> 01:32:20,000
Scrooge was as good as his word.

1588
01:32:20,167 --> 01:32:23,667
He did it all,
and infinitely more.

1589
01:32:24,125 --> 01:32:27,125
And to tiny Tim, who did not die

1590
01:32:27,417 --> 01:32:29,292
he was a second father.

1591
01:32:29,833 --> 01:32:33,833
He became as good a friend

1592
01:32:34,333 --> 01:32:35,875
as good a master

1593
01:32:36,083 --> 01:32:38,458
and as good a man

1594
01:32:38,917 --> 01:32:40,792
as the good old city knew

1595
01:32:40,875 --> 01:32:43,708
or any other good old city,
town or borough

1596
01:32:43,792 --> 01:32:45,958
in the good old world

1597
01:32:47,292 --> 01:32:51,542
some people laughed to see
the transformation in him

1598
01:32:52,250 --> 01:32:54,667
but he let them laugh,
and heeded them little

1599
01:32:54,750 --> 01:32:56,833
for he was wise enough to know

1600
01:32:57,083 --> 01:33:00,917
that nothing ever happened
on the globe, for good

1601
01:33:01,167 --> 01:33:02,708
at which some people

1602
01:33:02,875 --> 01:33:06,542
had not had their fill
of laughter at the outset

1603
01:33:07,250 --> 01:33:10,458
and since he knew
such as these were blind anyway

1604
01:33:10,542 --> 01:33:12,809
he thought it just as well that
their eyes should wrinkle up

1605
01:33:12,833 --> 01:33:16,375
in laughter, as have the malady
in less attractive forms.

1606
01:33:18,583 --> 01:33:22,208
He had no further intercourse
with spirits

1607
01:33:22,583 --> 01:33:26,792
but lived life according to
the total abstinence principle

1608
01:33:26,917 --> 01:33:28,250
ever after.

1609
01:33:30,708 --> 01:33:32,208
And it was said of him

1610
01:33:32,708 --> 01:33:36,375
that he knew how to keep
Christmas well

1611
01:33:36,458 --> 01:33:39,292
if any man in the world
had such knowledge.

1612
01:33:40,500 --> 01:33:42,583
Let that be truly said of us

1613
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:44,708
and all of us.

1614
01:33:46,208 --> 01:33:47,958
And, as tiny Tim observed...

1615
01:33:49,208 --> 01:33:52,000
"God bless us, every one."