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Is he the bad one?
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Very bad.
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And are there ghosts?
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What are the people
in the picture?
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They're in prison.
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They look sad.
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Say we're nearly ready.
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Ghosts, you say?
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Are you quite certain
you won't be too...
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frightened!
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No, Father.
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Don't be silly.
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It's a nice story.
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It's only Marley
who's slightly unpleasant...
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and he's soon gone.
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Oh, Marley was dead
to begin with.
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There is no doubt
whatever about that.
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Old Marley was dead
as a door-nail.
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Did Scrooge know Marley
was dead?
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Of course he did!
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Scrooge and Marley had been
partners for...
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I don't know how long.
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He was his sole executor,
his sole mourner.
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And even Scrooge was not so
desperately cut up
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about the sad event.
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There is no doubt about that.
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This must be clearly understood
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or nothing good
can come of this story
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that I am about to relate.
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Oh, but Scrooge
was a tight-fisted hand
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at the grindstone.
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Scrooge!
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A squeezing, wrenching, grasping
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scraping, clutching,
covetous old sinner!
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Hard and sharp as flint
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from which no steel had ever
struck out generous fire.
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Secret, and self-contained
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and solitary as an oyster.
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Once upon a time
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of all the good days
in the year, on Christmas Eve
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old Scrooge sat busy
in his counting house.
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It was cold, bleak,
biting weather.
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The door of Scrooge's
counting house was open
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that he might
keep his eye upon his clerk
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who, in a dismal little
cell beyond
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was copying letters.
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Scrooge had a very small fire.
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The clerk tried to warm himself
at the candle
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in which effort, not being a man
of strong imagination
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he failed.
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A merry Christmas, Uncle!
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Cried a cheerful voice.
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God save you!
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It was the voice
of his nephew, Fred
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who came upon him so quickly
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that this was the first
intimation he had
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of his approach.
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Bah, humbug!
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Christmas a humbug, Uncle?
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You don't mean that, I'm sure.
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I do.
What right have you to be merry?
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You're poor enough.
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Come then, what right
have you to be dismal?
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What reason have you
to be morose?
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You're rich enough.
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Bah, humbug!
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Don't be cross, Uncle!
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What else can I be when I live
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in such a world of fools
as this?
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What's Christmas time to you
but a time
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for paying bills without money?
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A time for finding yourself
a year older
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but not an hour richer.
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If I could work my will
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every idiot who goes about
with "Merry Christmas"
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on his lips should be boiled
with his own pudding
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and buried with a stake
of holly through his heart.
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Uncle!
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I have always thought of
Christmas time as a good time.
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A kind, forgiving,
charitable, pleasant time.
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The only time I know of
in the long calendar of the year
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when men and women
seem by one consent
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to open their shut-up
hearts freely
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and to think of people
below them
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as if they really were
fellow passengers to the grave
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and not another race
of creatures
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bound on other journeys.
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And therefore, Uncle
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though it has never put a scrap
of gold or silver in my pocket
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I believe that it has
done me good
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and will do me good
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and I say, God bless it!
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The clerk
involuntarily applauded
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becoming immediately
sensible of the impropriety.
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Let me hear
another sound from you
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and you'll keep your Christmas
by losing your situation.
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Don't be angry, Uncle.
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Come! Dine with us tomorrow.
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Thank you, but no.
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But why? Why?
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Why did you get married?
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Because I fell in love.
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Because you fell in love!
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Good afternoon.
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I want nothing from you,
I ask nothing of you.
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Why cannot we be friends?
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Good afternoon.
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I am sorry, with all my heart
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to find you so resolute.
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We have never had any quarrel
to which I have been a party.
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But I have made the trial
in homage to Christmas
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and I'll keep my Christmas
honour to the last.
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So a merry Christmas, Uncle!
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- Happy New Year!
- Good afternoon.
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Good afternoon.
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His nephew left
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without an angry word,
notwithstanding.
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He stopped at the outer door
to bestow the greetings
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of the season on the clerk,
who, cold as he was
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was warmer than Scrooge
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for he returned them cordially.
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There's another fellow, my clerk
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with 15 shillings a week,
and a wife and family
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talking about a merry Christmas.
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I'll retire to a madhouse.
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He'll want all day tomorrow,
I suppose.
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If quite convenient, sir.
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It's not convenient,
and it's not fair.
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If I was to
stop half-a-crown for it
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you'd think yourself ill-used,
I'll be bound?
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You don't think me ill-used,
when I pay a day's wages
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for no work.
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It is only once a year, sir.
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A poor excuse
for picking a man's pocket
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every 25th of December!
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But I suppose
you must have the whole day.
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Be here all the earlier
next morning.
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The clerk promised that he would
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and Scrooge walked out
with a growl.
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The office was closed
in a twinkling
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and the clerk ran home
to Camden Town
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as hard as he could pelt,
to play at blind man's-buff.
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As Scrooge left
his counting house
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he was approached
by two gentlemen
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who had been on their way
to visit him.
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Scrooge and Marley's, I believe.
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Have I the pleasure of
addressing Mr Scrooge
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- or Mr Marley?
- Mr Marley has been dead
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these seven years.
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He died seven years ago,
this very night.
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We have no doubt his
liberality is well represented
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by his surviving partner.
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Good afternoon.
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At this festive season
of the year
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it is more than usually
desirable that we should
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make some slight provision
for the poor and destitute
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who suffer greatly
at the present time.
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Take pity on us, sir.
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We've got no lodgings.
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Many thousands are
in want of common necessaries
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hundreds of thousands are in
want of common comforts, sir.
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Are there no prisons?
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Plenty of prisons.
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And the Union workhouses?
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Are they still in operation?
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They are. I wish
I could say they were not.
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The Treadmill and the Poor Law
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are in full vigour then?
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Both very busy, sir.
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Oh. I was afraid,
from what you said at first
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that something had occurred
to stop them
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in their useful course.
I'm very glad to hear it.
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Under the impression
that they scarcely furnish
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Christian cheer of mind or body
to the multitude
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a few of us are endeavouring
to raise a fund
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to buy the poor some meat
and drink and means of warmth.
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We choose this time,
because it is a time
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of all others,
when want is keenly felt
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and abundance rejoices.
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What shall I put you down for?
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Nothing!
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You wish to be anonymous?
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I wish to be left alone
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since you ask me what I wish,
gentlemen, that is my answer.
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I don't make merry myself
at Christmas
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and I can't afford
to make idle people merry.
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I help to support the
establishments I have mentioned
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they cost enough, and those
who are badly off must go there.
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Many can't go there
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and many would rather die.
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The missus goes
that way, you that way.
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No argument, mind.
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If they would rather die
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they had better do it
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and decrease
the surplus population.
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Besides, it's not my business.
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It's enough for a man
to understand his own business
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and not to interfere
with other people's.
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Mine occupies me constantly.
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Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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Hurry along, there!
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No talking.
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Eyes to the front!
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Another gin, waiter!
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Finished with the paper?
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Scrooge took
his melancholy dinner
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in his usual melancholy tavern
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and having read
all the newspapers
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went home to bed.
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Charity?
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It's Christmas, guv.
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Let any man
explain to me if he can
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how it happened that Scrooge
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having his key
in the lock of the door
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saw in the knocker
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Marley's face.
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Marley's face...
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It had a dismal light about it
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like a bad lobster
in a dark cellar.
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That, and its livid colour
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made it horrible.
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As Scrooge looked fixedly
at this phenomenon
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it was a knocker again.
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The bells ceased
as they had begun, together.
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They were succeeded by
a clanking noise from the attic
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as if some person were dragging
a heavy chain over the beams.
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Then he heard the noise
much louder
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coming straight towards
his door.
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What do you want with me?
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Much.
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In life, I was your partner
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Jacob Marley.
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You don't believe in me?
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Why do you doubt your senses?
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Because
a little thing affects them.
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A slight disorder of the stomach
makes them cheats.
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You might be an undigested bit
of beef, a crumb of cheese
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a fragment of underdone potato.
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There's more of gravy
than of grave about you.
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Why do spirits walk the earth?
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And why do they come to me?
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It is required...
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...of every man
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that the sprit within him
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should walk among
his fellow man
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and travel far and wide
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and if that spirit
goes not forth in life
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it is condemned to do so
after death.
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Oh, woe is me!
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You are fettered.
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I wear the chains
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I forged in life.
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I made it link by link
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and yard by yard.
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I girded it on
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and of my own free will
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I wore it.
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Is its pattern strange to you?
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Or would you know
the weight and length
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of the strong coil
you wear yourself?
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It was full as heavy
and as long as this
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seven Christmases ago...
264
00:20:24,624 --> 00:20:30,060
and you have
laboured on it since.
265
00:20:30,830 --> 00:20:34,765
Jacob, tell me more.
Speak comfort to me!
266
00:20:34,767 --> 00:20:37,902
I have none to give.
267
00:20:38,204 --> 00:20:40,838
But you were always
a good man of business, Jacob.
268
00:20:41,174 --> 00:20:42,773
Business!
269
00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:46,977
Mankind was my business.
270
00:20:48,114 --> 00:20:51,916
The common welfare
was my business.
271
00:20:52,718 --> 00:20:57,121
Charity, mercy and benevolence
272
00:20:57,123 --> 00:21:00,658
were all my business.
273
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:10,968
At this time of year,
I suffer most.
274
00:21:11,471 --> 00:21:12,903
She's a ripe one.
275
00:21:12,905 --> 00:21:14,705
Ripe for the picking!
276
00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:19,076
Why did I walk through crowds
277
00:21:19,078 --> 00:21:23,247
of fellow beings
with my eyes turned down
278
00:21:23,249 --> 00:21:27,551
and never raise them
to that blessed star
279
00:21:27,553 --> 00:21:31,121
which led the Wise Men
to a poor abode!
280
00:21:32,959 --> 00:21:34,725
Hear me!
281
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:37,761
My time is nearly gone.
282
00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:42,233
I am here tonight to warn you
283
00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:45,536
that you have yet a hope
284
00:21:45,872 --> 00:21:49,673
of escaping my fate.
285
00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:51,842
You were always
a good friend to me. Thank ye!
286
00:21:52,545 --> 00:21:54,745
You will...
287
00:21:55,648 --> 00:21:59,783
be haunted by three spirits.
288
00:22:07,994 --> 00:22:13,898
Expect the first
when the bell tolls midnight.
289
00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:17,101
Look to see me no more
290
00:22:17,103 --> 00:22:19,036
and remember
291
00:22:19,672 --> 00:22:24,241
what has passed between us.
292
00:22:36,856 --> 00:22:39,690
The air was filled with phantoms
293
00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:42,660
wandering hither and thither
in restless haste
294
00:22:42,662 --> 00:22:44,595
and moaning as they went.
295
00:22:49,268 --> 00:22:52,803
Every one of them wore chains
like Marley's Ghost
296
00:22:53,272 --> 00:22:55,906
some few, they might be guilty
governments
297
00:22:55,908 --> 00:22:57,341
were linked together.
298
00:22:57,343 --> 00:22:59,143
None were free.
299
00:23:03,649 --> 00:23:08,185
Many had been personally known
to Scrooge in their lives.
300
00:23:09,288 --> 00:23:12,323
He had been quite familiar
with one old ghost
301
00:23:12,325 --> 00:23:14,925
who cried piteously
302
00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:18,262
at being unable to assist
a wretched housekeeper
303
00:23:18,264 --> 00:23:21,632
with an infant whom it saw
below, upon a doorstep.
304
00:23:24,003 --> 00:23:26,637
Whether these creatures
faded into mist
305
00:23:26,639 --> 00:23:28,806
or mist enshrouded them
306
00:23:28,808 --> 00:23:30,774
he could not tell.
307
00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:34,812
But they and their
spirit voices faded together
308
00:23:36,115 --> 00:23:39,116
and the night
became as it had been.
309
00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:44,755
♪ Hark the herald... ♪
310
00:23:47,159 --> 00:23:49,393
The Ghost of Christmas Past.
311
00:24:03,643 --> 00:24:05,409
When Scrooge awoke
312
00:24:05,745 --> 00:24:08,746
the neighbouring church
struck the four quarters
313
00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,781
so he listened for the hour.
314
00:24:16,055 --> 00:24:17,254
Twelve.
315
00:24:17,256 --> 00:24:21,091
Marley's Ghost
bothered him exceedingly.
316
00:24:22,128 --> 00:24:24,762
Was it a dream, or not?
317
00:24:27,333 --> 00:24:30,100
Are you the spirit
whose coming was foretold me?
318
00:24:30,936 --> 00:24:33,437
I am
the Ghost of Christmas Past.
319
00:24:34,273 --> 00:24:35,839
Your past.
320
00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:37,408
What business brought you here?
321
00:24:37,410 --> 00:24:39,759
Your welfare.
322
00:24:39,761 --> 00:24:42,111
Scrooge expressed
himself much obliged
323
00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:46,817
but could not help thinking
that a night of unbroken rest
324
00:24:46,819 --> 00:24:49,186
would have been more conducive
to that end.
325
00:24:49,889 --> 00:24:52,756
The Spirit must have
heard him thinking.
326
00:24:53,059 --> 00:24:55,125
Your reclamation, then.
327
00:24:55,127 --> 00:24:56,393
Take heed.
328
00:24:56,395 --> 00:25:00,864
It put out
its strong hand as it spoke
329
00:25:00,866 --> 00:25:03,400
and clasped him gently
by the arm.
330
00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:07,705
It would have been in vain
for Scrooge to plead
331
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,074
that the bed was warm
332
00:25:10,076 --> 00:25:13,210
and the thermometer
a long way below freezing
333
00:25:13,212 --> 00:25:16,146
and that he was clad
but lightly in his slippers
334
00:25:16,148 --> 00:25:18,148
dressing gown and nightcap
335
00:25:18,150 --> 00:25:21,085
and that he had a cold upon him
at that time.
336
00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:25,422
The grasp, though gentle,
was not to be resisted.
337
00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:32,029
He rose, and somehow knew
338
00:25:32,164 --> 00:25:35,099
that the spirit would take him
into the air.
339
00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:38,068
I am mortal, and liable to fall.
340
00:25:39,004 --> 00:25:41,772
Bear but
a touch of my hand there
341
00:25:42,274 --> 00:25:45,743
and you shall be upheld
in more than this.
342
00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:49,379
As the words were spoken
343
00:25:49,849 --> 00:25:52,349
they passed through the wall
344
00:25:52,918 --> 00:25:56,754
and stood upon
an open country road
345
00:25:56,989 --> 00:25:59,123
with fields on either hand.
346
00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:03,794
Woohoo!
347
00:26:03,796 --> 00:26:06,230
Happy Christmas, Will, Charlie!
348
00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:07,798
Good Heaven!
349
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,235
I was bred in this place.
I was a boy here.
350
00:26:13,172 --> 00:26:16,507
He was conscious
of a thousand odours
351
00:26:16,509 --> 00:26:19,977
floating in the air,
each one connected
352
00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:23,947
with a thousand thoughts,
and hopes, and joys
353
00:26:23,949 --> 00:26:27,851
and cares long, long forgotten.
354
00:26:28,521 --> 00:26:30,921
You recollect the way?
355
00:26:31,223 --> 00:26:33,824
Remember it!
I could walk it blindfold.
356
00:26:33,826 --> 00:26:35,793
Strange you have forgotten it
357
00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:37,861
for so many years.
358
00:26:37,863 --> 00:26:39,563
They walked along the road
359
00:26:39,565 --> 00:26:43,267
Scrooge recognising every gate
360
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,402
and post and tree
361
00:26:46,038 --> 00:26:49,206
until a little market town
appeared in the distance.
362
00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:51,141
These are but the shadows
363
00:26:51,143 --> 00:26:52,576
of the things that have been.
364
00:26:52,578 --> 00:26:54,178
See you next year!
365
00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:57,181
Next year...
How funny that sounds!
366
00:26:57,183 --> 00:27:00,484
The school
is not quite deserted.
367
00:27:00,986 --> 00:27:02,586
A solitary child...
368
00:27:03,055 --> 00:27:05,255
...neglected by his friends
369
00:27:05,891 --> 00:27:07,825
is left there still.
370
00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:11,395
The spirit
touched him on the arm
371
00:27:11,564 --> 00:27:14,565
and pointed to his young self
372
00:27:15,167 --> 00:27:18,602
a lonely boy
reading by a feeble fire.
373
00:27:20,406 --> 00:27:22,439
Scrooge wept
374
00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:27,144
to see his poor forgotten self
as he used to be.
375
00:27:29,849 --> 00:27:31,448
Why, it's old Tom!
376
00:27:32,551 --> 00:27:34,952
It's dear old, honest Tom.
377
00:27:35,588 --> 00:27:37,287
Yes, yes, I know...
378
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,193
One Christmas time,
when yonder solitary child
379
00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:45,262
was left here all alone
380
00:27:46,298 --> 00:27:47,631
he did come to cheer me.
381
00:27:48,534 --> 00:27:50,067
Poor boy.
382
00:27:50,336 --> 00:27:52,636
Scrooge thought he was dreaming
383
00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:54,571
but he wasn't.
384
00:27:54,573 --> 00:27:58,342
Then,
with a rapidity of transition
385
00:27:58,344 --> 00:28:01,245
very foreign
to his usual character
386
00:28:01,881 --> 00:28:04,648
he said,
in pity for his former self
387
00:28:05,618 --> 00:28:07,317
"Poor boy!"
388
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,053
and cried again.
389
00:28:12,892 --> 00:28:13,991
I wish...
390
00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:16,593
But it's too late now.
391
00:28:18,464 --> 00:28:20,230
What is the matter?
392
00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:21,632
Nothing.
393
00:28:21,634 --> 00:28:23,967
There was a boy singing
a Christmas Carol last night.
394
00:28:24,303 --> 00:28:26,570
I should like to have
given him something, that's all.
395
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,606
Let us see another Christmas.
396
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:39,082
He was not reading now
397
00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:42,319
but walking up and down
despairingly.
398
00:28:43,589 --> 00:28:45,989
Scrooge looked at the ghost
399
00:28:46,158 --> 00:28:48,992
and with a mournful
shaking of his head
400
00:28:49,194 --> 00:28:51,995
glanced anxiously
towards the door.
401
00:28:57,369 --> 00:28:59,670
Oh, dear, dear brother!
402
00:29:00,940 --> 00:29:03,540
I have come to bring you home,
dear brother!
403
00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:05,275
To bring you home, home, home!
404
00:29:06,712 --> 00:29:08,312
Home, little Fan?
405
00:29:08,514 --> 00:29:11,381
Yes! Home, for good and all.
406
00:29:12,284 --> 00:29:13,717
Home, for ever and ever.
407
00:29:15,454 --> 00:29:18,055
Father is so much kinder
than he used to be.
408
00:29:19,725 --> 00:29:21,692
He spoke so gently to me
one night
409
00:29:21,694 --> 00:29:23,260
when I was going to bed
410
00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:27,431
that I was not afraid to ask him
once more if you might come home
411
00:29:28,334 --> 00:29:30,734
and he said, "Yes, you should!"
412
00:29:31,570 --> 00:29:33,470
and sent me in a coach
to bring you.
413
00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:36,640
And you are never
to come back here.
414
00:29:38,344 --> 00:29:39,643
But first...
415
00:29:40,512 --> 00:29:43,380
we're to be together
all Christmas long
416
00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:47,217
and have the merriest time
in all the world!
417
00:29:48,020 --> 00:29:50,153
You are quite
a housekeeper, little Fan.
418
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,724
You must come with me now.
419
00:30:02,167 --> 00:30:03,767
Do you know this place?
420
00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:06,670
Know it! Of course I know it.
421
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,539
Was I not apprenticed here?
422
00:30:10,541 --> 00:30:12,441
Scrooge's former
self, now grown a young man
423
00:30:12,444 --> 00:30:15,779
came briskly in, accompanied
by his fellow prentice.
424
00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:24,154
Dick Wilkins, to be sure!
425
00:30:24,156 --> 00:30:25,789
Bless me, yes, there he is!
426
00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:29,559
He was very much attached to me,
was Dick.
427
00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:31,128
Poor Dick.
428
00:30:32,364 --> 00:30:34,431
Why, it's old Fezziwig!
429
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,402
Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig,
alive again!
430
00:30:39,705 --> 00:30:42,272
Old Fezziwig laid down his pen
431
00:30:42,274 --> 00:30:44,207
and looked at his watch.
432
00:30:44,209 --> 00:30:48,545
He rubbed his hands,
adjusted his capacious waistcoat
433
00:30:48,547 --> 00:30:51,581
and called out
in a comfortable, oily
434
00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:54,551
rich, fat, jovial voice...
435
00:30:55,054 --> 00:30:57,387
Yo-ho, there, Ebenezer!
436
00:30:57,389 --> 00:30:59,556
Yo-ho, my boys!
437
00:30:59,558 --> 00:31:01,291
No more work tonight!
438
00:31:01,627 --> 00:31:03,493
Christmas, Ebenezer.
439
00:31:03,762 --> 00:31:05,262
Hilly-ho!
440
00:31:05,464 --> 00:31:07,130
Clear away, my lads
441
00:31:07,132 --> 00:31:09,166
and let's have
lots of room here.
442
00:31:09,168 --> 00:31:10,367
Clear away!
443
00:31:10,803 --> 00:31:13,370
It was done in a minute.
444
00:31:13,372 --> 00:31:16,573
The floor was swept and watered,
and the lamps were trimmed
445
00:31:16,575 --> 00:31:19,476
and the warehouse
was as snug and warm
446
00:31:19,478 --> 00:31:22,312
and dry and bright a ballroom
447
00:31:22,314 --> 00:31:24,815
as you would desire to see
upon a winter's night.
448
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,121
In came a fiddler
with a music book
449
00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:34,624
and went up to the lofty desk,
and made an orchestra of it
450
00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:37,761
and tuned like 50 stomach aches.
451
00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:43,667
In came Mrs Fezziwig,
one vast substantial smile.
452
00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:47,337
In came the three Miss Fezziwigs
453
00:31:47,339 --> 00:31:48,805
beaming and lovable.
454
00:31:49,341 --> 00:31:53,343
In came the six young followers
whose hearts they broke.
455
00:31:53,612 --> 00:31:57,481
In came all the young men and
women employed in the business.
456
00:31:58,117 --> 00:32:00,884
In came the housemaid,
with her cousin, the baker.
457
00:32:00,886 --> 00:32:04,387
In came the cook, with her
brother's particular friend
458
00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:05,722
the milkman.
459
00:32:05,724 --> 00:32:07,858
In came the boy
from over the way
460
00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:10,393
who was suspected of not
having board enough
461
00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:12,962
from his master.
462
00:32:12,964 --> 00:32:15,532
In they all came,
anyhow and everyhow.
463
00:32:16,401 --> 00:32:19,536
There were dances
and more dances
464
00:32:19,671 --> 00:32:22,772
and there were forfeits,
and more dances
465
00:32:23,175 --> 00:32:25,609
and there was cake,
and there was negus
466
00:32:25,711 --> 00:32:28,211
and there was a great piece
of cold roast
467
00:32:28,213 --> 00:32:31,181
and there was a great piece
of cold boiled
468
00:32:31,350 --> 00:32:35,252
and there were mince pies,
and plenty of beer.
469
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,168
During the whole of this time
470
00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:54,371
Scrooge had acted like
a man out of his wits.
471
00:32:55,207 --> 00:32:58,308
His heart and soul
were in the scene
472
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,410
and with his former self.
473
00:33:02,314 --> 00:33:04,347
It was not until now
474
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:06,716
when the bright face
of his former self
475
00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:08,485
was turned from them
476
00:33:08,620 --> 00:33:10,554
that he remembered the ghost
477
00:33:11,490 --> 00:33:15,592
and became conscious that
it was looking full upon him.
478
00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:17,894
A small matter
479
00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:20,830
to make these silly folk
so full of gratitude.
480
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:22,299
Small!
481
00:33:22,301 --> 00:33:24,301
Why? Is it not small?
482
00:33:24,570 --> 00:33:26,770
He has spent but a few pounds.
483
00:33:27,439 --> 00:33:30,840
Is that so much
that he deserves this praise?
484
00:33:31,443 --> 00:33:33,910
Scrooge, heated by the remark
485
00:33:33,912 --> 00:33:36,580
and speaking unconsciously
like his former
486
00:33:36,582 --> 00:33:38,715
not his latter self, said...
487
00:33:38,717 --> 00:33:40,283
It isn't that, Spirit!
488
00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:42,986
He has the power to render us
happy or unhappy.
489
00:33:43,956 --> 00:33:46,623
To make our service
light or burdensome
490
00:33:46,625 --> 00:33:47,991
a pleasure or a toil.
491
00:33:49,528 --> 00:33:51,328
The happiness he gives
492
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,663
is quite as great
as if it cost a fortune.
493
00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:59,803
He felt the
spirit's glance, and stopped.
494
00:34:00,539 --> 00:34:01,905
What is the matter?
495
00:34:01,907 --> 00:34:03,473
Nothing in particular.
496
00:34:03,609 --> 00:34:05,542
Something, I think?
497
00:34:06,345 --> 00:34:08,411
I should like to be
able to say a word or two
498
00:34:08,413 --> 00:34:10,313
to my clerk just now.
That's all.
499
00:34:57,296 --> 00:35:00,030
We must away, to your sister.
500
00:35:05,871 --> 00:35:08,305
Always a delicate creature
501
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,040
whom a breath
might have withered
502
00:35:10,809 --> 00:35:12,976
but she had a large heart.
503
00:35:13,412 --> 00:35:15,312
So she had. You're right.
504
00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:16,746
I'll not deny it for a second.
505
00:35:17,482 --> 00:35:18,682
God forbid.
506
00:35:19,551 --> 00:35:21,017
She died a woman
507
00:35:21,019 --> 00:35:23,053
and had, I think, children.
508
00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:27,957
One child.
509
00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,793
True, your nephew.
510
00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:45,975
My time grows short. Quick.
511
00:36:03,929 --> 00:36:05,762
He was older now.
512
00:36:06,031 --> 00:36:09,399
His face had begun
to wear the signs
513
00:36:09,401 --> 00:36:11,468
of care and avarice.
514
00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:16,406
There was an eager, greedy,
restless motion in the eye
515
00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:19,909
which showed the passion
that had taken root
516
00:36:20,445 --> 00:36:23,813
and where the shadow
of the growing tree would fall.
517
00:36:25,650 --> 00:36:28,985
He was sat by the side
of a fair young girl
518
00:36:29,154 --> 00:36:31,821
in whose eyes there were tears.
519
00:36:45,637 --> 00:36:46,936
It matters little.
520
00:36:48,173 --> 00:36:49,539
To you, very little.
521
00:36:50,609 --> 00:36:52,575
Another idol has displaced me
522
00:36:52,878 --> 00:36:55,044
and if it can cheer and
comfort you in time to come
523
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:56,780
as I would have tried to do
524
00:36:56,782 --> 00:36:58,415
I have no just cause to grieve.
525
00:36:58,417 --> 00:36:59,816
What idol has displaced you?
526
00:37:00,452 --> 00:37:01,718
A golden one.
527
00:37:05,757 --> 00:37:08,024
This is the even-handed
dealing of the world.
528
00:37:08,026 --> 00:37:10,894
There is nothing on which
it is so hard as poverty
529
00:37:10,896 --> 00:37:12,796
and there is nothing
it professes to condemn
530
00:37:12,798 --> 00:37:14,731
with such severity
as the pursuit of wealth!
531
00:37:16,435 --> 00:37:18,802
You fear the world too much.
532
00:37:23,975 --> 00:37:26,910
All your other hopes have merged
into the hope of wealth.
533
00:37:27,813 --> 00:37:31,581
I have seen your nobler
aspirations fall off one by one
534
00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:34,717
until the master passion, gain,
engrosses you. Have I not?
535
00:37:36,788 --> 00:37:38,021
What then?
536
00:37:38,023 --> 00:37:41,024
Even if I have grown
so much wiser, what then?
537
00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,792
I am not changed towards you.
538
00:37:45,697 --> 00:37:46,830
Am I?
539
00:37:49,734 --> 00:37:52,202
Our contract is an old one.
540
00:37:52,938 --> 00:37:55,939
It was made when we were both
poor and content to be so
541
00:37:55,941 --> 00:37:58,141
until, in good season,
we could improve
542
00:37:58,143 --> 00:38:00,710
our worldly fortune
by our patient industry.
543
00:38:02,047 --> 00:38:03,546
You are changed.
544
00:38:03,949 --> 00:38:05,815
When it was made,
you were another man.
545
00:38:10,055 --> 00:38:11,187
I was a boy.
546
00:38:16,094 --> 00:38:18,595
Your own feeling tells you
that you were not then
547
00:38:18,597 --> 00:38:19,796
what you are now.
548
00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:23,066
That which promised happiness
when we were one in heart
549
00:38:23,068 --> 00:38:25,101
is fraught with misery
now that we are two.
550
00:38:29,007 --> 00:38:30,807
It is enough
that I have thought of it
551
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:32,809
- and can release you.
- Have I ever sought release?
552
00:38:32,811 --> 00:38:33,943
In words?
553
00:38:34,246 --> 00:38:36,145
- No. Never.
- In what, then?
554
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:38,781
In everything that made
my love of any worth
555
00:38:38,783 --> 00:38:40,183
or value in your sight.
556
00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:43,920
If this had never been
between us, tell me
557
00:38:43,922 --> 00:38:46,222
would you seek me out
and try to win me now?
558
00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:49,759
He seemed to yield
to the justice
559
00:38:49,761 --> 00:38:52,061
of this supposition,
in spite of himself.
560
00:38:52,564 --> 00:38:55,164
But he said, with a struggle...
561
00:38:56,067 --> 00:38:57,200
You think not?
562
00:38:58,737 --> 00:39:01,004
I would gladly
think otherwise, if I could.
563
00:39:01,973 --> 00:39:04,941
But if you were free today,
tomorrow, yesterday
564
00:39:05,610 --> 00:39:07,944
can I believe that you would
choose a poor girl?
565
00:39:07,946 --> 00:39:10,747
You, who now
weigh everything by gain.
566
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,653
If, for a moment,
you were false enough
567
00:39:16,655 --> 00:39:18,621
to your one guiding principle
568
00:39:18,623 --> 00:39:21,824
I know that your repentance
and regret would surely follow.
569
00:39:26,298 --> 00:39:28,164
He was about to speak
570
00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:30,233
but with her head
turned from him
571
00:39:30,235 --> 00:39:31,768
she walked away.
572
00:39:33,605 --> 00:39:35,171
He did not follow.
573
00:39:40,812 --> 00:39:42,745
Spirit! Show me no more!
574
00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:45,748
Conduct me home. Why do you
delight to torture me?
575
00:39:47,652 --> 00:39:49,586
One shadow more.
576
00:39:50,055 --> 00:39:51,888
No more, I don't wish to see it!
577
00:39:51,890 --> 00:39:53,222
Show me no more!
578
00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:56,259
But the relentless
ghost pinioned him
579
00:39:56,261 --> 00:39:58,027
in both his arms
580
00:39:58,029 --> 00:40:01,631
and forced him to observe
what happened next.
581
00:40:07,138 --> 00:40:09,372
They were now years hence.
582
00:40:10,175 --> 00:40:13,943
A room,
not very large or handsome
583
00:40:13,945 --> 00:40:15,712
but full of comfort.
584
00:40:16,314 --> 00:40:19,749
Near to the fire
sat a beautiful young girl
585
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,818
so like that last
586
00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:24,087
that Scrooge believed
it was the same
587
00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,322
until he saw her
588
00:40:26,324 --> 00:40:30,393
now a comely matron,
sitting opposite her daughter.
589
00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:34,163
And now Scrooge looked on
590
00:40:34,165 --> 00:40:36,065
more attentively than ever
591
00:40:36,301 --> 00:40:38,301
when the master of the house
592
00:40:38,303 --> 00:40:41,704
having his eldest daughter
leaning fondly on him
593
00:40:41,706 --> 00:40:46,142
sat down with her and her mother
at his own fireside.
594
00:40:46,978 --> 00:40:51,214
And when he thought
that such another creature
595
00:40:51,216 --> 00:40:53,383
quite as graceful
and as full of promise
596
00:40:53,385 --> 00:40:55,284
might have called him father
597
00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:58,855
and been a springtime in
the haggard winter of his life
598
00:40:59,324 --> 00:41:03,259
his sight grew very dim indeed.
599
00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:16,939
Spirit!
Remove me from this place.
600
00:41:17,676 --> 00:41:19,709
I told you these were shadows
601
00:41:19,711 --> 00:41:21,844
of the things that have been.
602
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,348
They are what they are.
Do not blame me.
603
00:41:26,451 --> 00:41:28,751
Remove me! I cannot bear it!
604
00:41:29,821 --> 00:41:31,954
He turned upon the ghost
605
00:41:32,357 --> 00:41:34,957
and seeing that it looked
upon him with a face
606
00:41:34,959 --> 00:41:37,794
in which, in some strange way
607
00:41:37,796 --> 00:41:41,197
there were fragments of
all the faces it had shown him
608
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,099
wrestled with it.
609
00:41:45,036 --> 00:41:48,104
He was conscious
of being exhausted
610
00:41:48,106 --> 00:41:51,340
and overcome
by an irresistible drowsiness...
611
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,018
and further...
612
00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:05,788
of being in his own bedroom.
613
00:42:12,797 --> 00:42:14,797
The Ghost of Christmas Present.
614
00:42:17,335 --> 00:42:21,938
He woke in the middle
of a prodigiously tough snore
615
00:42:22,107 --> 00:42:24,774
and sat up in bed
to get his thoughts together.
616
00:42:26,177 --> 00:42:31,948
♪ Go, go tell it ♪
617
00:42:36,354 --> 00:42:42,125
♪ Go, go tell it ♪
618
00:42:45,530 --> 00:42:50,233
♪ On the mountain... ♪
619
00:42:50,235 --> 00:42:52,368
It was his own room.
620
00:42:52,504 --> 00:42:54,504
There was no doubt about that.
621
00:42:55,273 --> 00:42:58,541
But it had undergone
a surprising transformation.
622
00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:03,780
A mighty blaze went roaring up
the chimney
623
00:43:03,782 --> 00:43:06,449
as that dull petrifaction
of a hearth
624
00:43:06,451 --> 00:43:10,453
had never known
in Scrooge's time, or Marley's
625
00:43:10,455 --> 00:43:14,257
or for many and many
a winter season gone.
626
00:43:15,527 --> 00:43:18,961
A jolly giant, glorious to see
627
00:43:19,197 --> 00:43:21,497
who bore a glowing torch
628
00:43:21,499 --> 00:43:24,433
in shape not unlike
plenty's horn
629
00:43:24,869 --> 00:43:30,106
and held it up, high up,
to shed its light on Scrooge
630
00:43:30,108 --> 00:43:33,142
as he came peeping
round the door.
631
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:37,914
Come in! Come in,
and know me better, man!
632
00:43:38,850 --> 00:43:41,217
Scrooge entered timidly
633
00:43:41,586 --> 00:43:44,287
and hung his head
before this spirit.
634
00:43:45,223 --> 00:43:48,591
He was not the dogged Scrooge
he had been
635
00:43:49,394 --> 00:43:52,929
and though the spirit's eyes
were clear and kind
636
00:43:53,932 --> 00:43:56,199
he did not like to meet them.
637
00:43:57,135 --> 00:43:59,101
I am
the Ghost of Christmas Present.
638
00:43:59,103 --> 00:44:00,336
Look upon me.
639
00:44:00,338 --> 00:44:02,905
Scrooge reverently did so.
640
00:44:04,108 --> 00:44:08,277
It was clothed
in one simple green robe
641
00:44:08,513 --> 00:44:10,279
bordered with white fur.
642
00:44:11,149 --> 00:44:14,016
This garment hung loosely
on the figure.
643
00:44:14,485 --> 00:44:18,588
Its feet, observable beneath
the ample folds of the garment
644
00:44:18,590 --> 00:44:21,524
were bare, and on its head
645
00:44:21,526 --> 00:44:24,861
it wore no other covering
than a holly wreath.
646
00:44:25,597 --> 00:44:28,598
Girded round its middle
was an antique scabbard
647
00:44:28,967 --> 00:44:30,933
but no sword was in it
648
00:44:31,336 --> 00:44:35,872
and the ancient sheath
was eaten up with rust.
649
00:44:37,141 --> 00:44:38,407
You've never seen
650
00:44:38,409 --> 00:44:40,543
- the like of me before.
- Never, sir.
651
00:44:40,545 --> 00:44:42,044
Have never walked forth
652
00:44:42,046 --> 00:44:43,546
with the younger members
of my family?
653
00:44:43,548 --> 00:44:45,915
I'm afraid I have not.
654
00:44:46,084 --> 00:44:47,650
Have you had many brothers,
Spirit?
655
00:44:47,652 --> 00:44:49,252
More than 1,800.
656
00:44:50,188 --> 00:44:52,154
Spirit, conduct me
where you will.
657
00:44:52,924 --> 00:44:54,924
I went forth last night
on compulsion
658
00:44:54,926 --> 00:44:57,193
and I learnt a lesson
which is working now.
659
00:44:58,162 --> 00:44:59,962
Tonight,
if you have aught to teach me
660
00:44:59,964 --> 00:45:01,197
let me profit by it.
661
00:45:01,332 --> 00:45:03,965
Touch my robe.
662
00:45:03,967 --> 00:45:06,601
Scrooge did as
he was told, and held it fast.
663
00:45:16,915 --> 00:45:22,919
♪ On the mountain ♪
664
00:45:24,455 --> 00:45:30,960
♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪
665
00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:34,630
♪ Go tell ♪
666
00:45:36,634 --> 00:45:38,601
Go to sleep,
or he won't come.
667
00:45:40,171 --> 00:45:41,504
Will we leave a carrot?
668
00:45:43,474 --> 00:45:44,974
Thank you, Your Majesty.
669
00:45:46,978 --> 00:45:49,412
The size, we'll still
be serving it at Easter!
670
00:45:54,218 --> 00:45:56,018
They stood in the city streets
671
00:45:56,020 --> 00:45:57,520
on Christmas morning.
672
00:45:58,323 --> 00:46:02,091
There was nothing very cheerful
in the climate or the town
673
00:46:02,226 --> 00:46:05,594
and yet there was an air
of cheerfulness abroad
674
00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:08,230
that the clearest summer air
675
00:46:08,232 --> 00:46:10,166
and brightest summer sun
676
00:46:10,168 --> 00:46:12,735
might have endeavoured
to diffuse in vain.
677
00:46:12,737 --> 00:46:16,272
Fresh oysters! Fresh oysters!
678
00:46:17,141 --> 00:46:20,042
The people were,
by this time, pouring forth.
679
00:46:21,412 --> 00:46:23,079
Buy any milk today?
680
00:46:23,081 --> 00:46:26,615
The grocers, oh, the grocers!
681
00:46:27,151 --> 00:46:30,152
The blended scents
of tea and coffee
682
00:46:30,154 --> 00:46:32,621
were so grateful to the nose.
683
00:46:32,991 --> 00:46:35,591
The sticks of cinnamon
so long and straight
684
00:46:35,693 --> 00:46:38,594
the candied fruits so caked
685
00:46:38,596 --> 00:46:41,030
and spotted with molten sugar.
686
00:46:41,566 --> 00:46:45,267
The customers were all
so hurried and so eager
687
00:46:45,269 --> 00:46:47,370
in the hopeful promise
of the day
688
00:46:47,372 --> 00:46:49,705
that they tumbled up
against each other at the door
689
00:46:49,707 --> 00:46:52,208
clashing their
wicker baskets wildly.
690
00:46:54,112 --> 00:46:56,045
But soon, the steeples
691
00:46:56,047 --> 00:46:58,347
called good people all to church
692
00:46:58,349 --> 00:47:01,117
flocking through the streets
in their best clothes
693
00:47:01,119 --> 00:47:02,785
and with their gayest faces.
694
00:47:07,191 --> 00:47:09,558
And at the same time,
there emerged
695
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,662
from scores of by-streets,
lanes and nameless turnings
696
00:47:13,798 --> 00:47:15,798
innumerable people
697
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,634
carrying their dinners
to the bakers' shops.
698
00:47:21,172 --> 00:47:22,705
The sight of these
poor revellers
699
00:47:22,707 --> 00:47:25,508
appeared to interest
the spirit very much
700
00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:29,145
for he stood with Scrooge
beside him in a baker's doorway
701
00:47:29,313 --> 00:47:32,648
and sprinkled incense
on their dinners from his torch.
702
00:47:37,188 --> 00:47:38,821
Mrs Johnson's got beef?
703
00:47:38,823 --> 00:47:40,756
She must've been
at the old man's wages
704
00:47:40,758 --> 00:47:42,691
before he got to the pub!
705
00:47:42,693 --> 00:47:44,827
Is there a peculiar
flavour in what you sprinkle
706
00:47:44,829 --> 00:47:46,562
- from your torch?
- There is.
707
00:47:46,564 --> 00:47:48,230
My own.
708
00:47:48,399 --> 00:47:50,399
Would it apply to any
kind of dinner on this day?
709
00:47:50,401 --> 00:47:51,567
To any kindly given.
710
00:47:51,569 --> 00:47:53,069
To a poor one most.
711
00:47:53,071 --> 00:47:54,437
Why to a poor one most?
712
00:47:54,439 --> 00:47:56,105
Because it needs it most.
713
00:47:56,574 --> 00:47:59,208
Spirit, I wonder you,
of all the beings
714
00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:01,610
in the many worlds about us,
should desire to cramp
715
00:48:01,612 --> 00:48:03,679
these people's opportunities
of innocent enjoyment.
716
00:48:03,681 --> 00:48:05,314
I?
717
00:48:05,316 --> 00:48:07,015
You would deprive
those that have no hearths
718
00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:08,717
of their own, the means of
cooking every seventh day
719
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,853
often the only day on which
they can be said to dine at all
720
00:48:10,855 --> 00:48:12,555
- wouldn't you?
- I...
721
00:48:12,557 --> 00:48:14,790
You seek to close
these bakeries on the Sabbath.
722
00:48:14,792 --> 00:48:16,826
- It comes to the same thing.
- I seek...
723
00:48:16,828 --> 00:48:18,260
Forgive me if I am wrong.
724
00:48:18,262 --> 00:48:19,562
It has been done in your name
725
00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:21,230
or at least
in that of your family.
726
00:48:24,535 --> 00:48:26,435
There are some
upon this earth of yours
727
00:48:26,437 --> 00:48:28,604
who lay claim to know us
728
00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:31,507
and who do their deeds
of passion, pride
729
00:48:31,709 --> 00:48:34,643
ill will, hatred, envy
730
00:48:34,846 --> 00:48:37,880
bigotry and selfishness
in our name
731
00:48:38,883 --> 00:48:42,685
who are as strange to us
and all our kith and kin
732
00:48:42,687 --> 00:48:44,286
as if they had never lived.
733
00:48:45,356 --> 00:48:46,522
Remember that...
734
00:48:47,225 --> 00:48:48,824
and charge their doings
on themselves...
735
00:48:49,827 --> 00:48:51,293
not us.
736
00:49:02,540 --> 00:49:04,406
I hope Martha
doesn't lose the pennies
737
00:49:04,408 --> 00:49:05,441
she saved for the train!
738
00:49:05,443 --> 00:49:08,244
She mustn't! I'll miss her.
739
00:49:16,854 --> 00:49:18,587
Let's wish she's not too tired
740
00:49:18,589 --> 00:49:20,156
from making all those hats.
741
00:49:21,459 --> 00:49:23,292
All aboard!
742
00:49:29,867 --> 00:49:32,635
Bob had but 15 bob a week.
743
00:49:33,204 --> 00:49:35,204
He pocketed on Saturdays
744
00:49:35,206 --> 00:49:38,440
but 15 copies
of his Christian name
745
00:49:38,876 --> 00:49:42,611
and yet the
Ghost of Christmas Present
746
00:49:42,613 --> 00:49:45,214
blessed his four-roomed house.
747
00:49:46,584 --> 00:49:48,417
Up rose Mrs Cratchit
748
00:49:48,419 --> 00:49:51,587
dressed out but poorly
in a twice-turned gown
749
00:49:51,589 --> 00:49:53,689
but brave in ribbons.
750
00:49:55,927 --> 00:49:58,527
What has ever
got your precious father then?
751
00:49:58,529 --> 00:50:00,429
And your brother, Tiny Tim?
752
00:50:00,431 --> 00:50:02,965
And Martha weren't as late
last Christmas by half an hour.
753
00:50:03,868 --> 00:50:05,434
Here's Martha, Mother!
754
00:50:05,436 --> 00:50:07,903
- Hello, Martha!
- Hello Martha!
755
00:50:07,905 --> 00:50:10,439
Why!
Bless your heart alive, my dear.
756
00:50:10,441 --> 00:50:11,840
How late you are!
757
00:50:12,410 --> 00:50:14,643
We'd a deal of work
to finish up last night
758
00:50:15,646 --> 00:50:17,646
and had to clear away
this morning, Mother.
759
00:50:19,584 --> 00:50:21,250
Don't wake me in the morning.
760
00:50:21,419 --> 00:50:24,320
I hope to lay abed tomorrow,
as it is a holiday!
761
00:50:25,957 --> 00:50:27,423
Well, never mind.
762
00:50:27,425 --> 00:50:29,792
Sit ye down before the fire,
Lord bless ye.
763
00:50:30,261 --> 00:50:32,228
No, no. There's Father coming!
764
00:50:32,230 --> 00:50:33,529
Hide, Martha, hide!
765
00:50:34,699 --> 00:50:36,632
So Martha hid herself
766
00:50:36,634 --> 00:50:38,534
and in came Bob
767
00:50:38,536 --> 00:50:41,403
his threadbare clothes
darned up and brushed
768
00:50:41,405 --> 00:50:42,538
to look seasonable
769
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,608
and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
770
00:50:46,611 --> 00:50:50,946
Alas, for Tiny Tim,
he bore a little crutch
771
00:50:51,549 --> 00:50:55,484
and had his limbs
supported by an iron frame.
772
00:50:56,454 --> 00:50:57,720
Why, where's our Martha?
773
00:50:57,722 --> 00:50:59,655
- Not coming.
- Not coming?
774
00:51:00,291 --> 00:51:02,725
Not coming upon Christmas Day?
775
00:51:02,927 --> 00:51:05,461
Martha didn't like
to see him disappointed
776
00:51:05,463 --> 00:51:09,531
if it were only in joke,
so she ran into his arms.
777
00:51:09,533 --> 00:51:10,933
Happy Christmas, Father!
778
00:51:10,935 --> 00:51:14,603
The two young
Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim
779
00:51:14,605 --> 00:51:16,739
and bore him off
into the washhouse...
780
00:51:16,741 --> 00:51:18,374
You come with us, Tim!
781
00:51:18,376 --> 00:51:21,810
...that he might hear the
pudding singing in the copper.
782
00:51:21,812 --> 00:51:23,912
And how did little Tim behave?
783
00:51:23,914 --> 00:51:25,714
Oh! As good as gold.
784
00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:27,883
As good as gold and better.
785
00:51:29,053 --> 00:51:32,321
Somehow, he gets thoughtful
sitting by himself so much
786
00:51:32,890 --> 00:51:34,690
and thinks the strangest things.
787
00:51:35,993 --> 00:51:38,927
He told me, coming home,
that he hoped the people
788
00:51:38,929 --> 00:51:41,930
saw him in the church,
because he was a cripple
789
00:51:42,733 --> 00:51:45,868
and it might be pleasant to them
to remember upon Christmas Day
790
00:51:46,637 --> 00:51:49,838
who made lame beggars walk,
and blind men see.
791
00:51:51,342 --> 00:51:54,510
Bob's voice was
tremulous when he told them this
792
00:51:54,879 --> 00:51:58,047
and trembled uncertainly
when he said
793
00:51:58,382 --> 00:52:02,384
that Tiny Tim was growing
strong and hearty.
794
00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:05,988
His active little crutch
was heard upon the floor
795
00:52:06,390 --> 00:52:08,090
and back came Tiny Tim
796
00:52:08,092 --> 00:52:10,592
escorted by his
brother and sister
797
00:52:10,594 --> 00:52:12,628
to his stool before the fire.
798
00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:16,765
Master Peter, and the two
ubiquitous young Cratchits
799
00:52:16,767 --> 00:52:18,667
went to fetch the goose
800
00:52:18,669 --> 00:52:21,937
with which they soon returned
in high procession.
801
00:52:22,606 --> 00:52:24,807
Such a bustle ensued
802
00:52:24,809 --> 00:52:29,345
that you might have thought
a goose the rarest of all birds
803
00:52:29,513 --> 00:52:31,447
a feathered phenomenon.
804
00:52:32,917 --> 00:52:37,486
And in truth, it was something
very like it in that house.
805
00:52:37,488 --> 00:52:39,088
I don't believe there was ever
806
00:52:39,090 --> 00:52:41,890
such a goose cooked, my dear!
Wonderful!
807
00:52:41,892 --> 00:52:43,592
Scrum-diddlyumptious!
808
00:52:43,594 --> 00:52:46,028
Its tenderness and flavour
809
00:52:46,030 --> 00:52:48,097
size and cheapness
810
00:52:48,099 --> 00:52:50,933
were the themes
of universal admiration.
811
00:52:50,935 --> 00:52:53,001
Hope there's gravy!
812
00:52:53,003 --> 00:52:55,070
Eked out by apple sauce
and mashed potatoes
813
00:52:55,072 --> 00:52:58,040
it was a sufficient dinner
for the whole family.
814
00:52:58,442 --> 00:53:02,444
Indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said
with great delight
815
00:53:02,446 --> 00:53:06,648
surveying one small atom
of a bone upon the dish
816
00:53:06,650 --> 00:53:08,984
they hadn't ate it all at last.
817
00:53:09,754 --> 00:53:12,488
But now,
the plates being changed
818
00:53:12,623 --> 00:53:15,691
Mrs Cratchit left the room alone
819
00:53:15,693 --> 00:53:17,993
too nervous to bear witnesses
820
00:53:17,995 --> 00:53:20,829
to take the pudding up
and bring it in.
821
00:53:22,533 --> 00:53:24,666
A great deal of steam!
822
00:53:25,069 --> 00:53:27,436
The pudding was out
of the copper.
823
00:53:27,772 --> 00:53:30,139
A smell like a washing day.
824
00:53:30,608 --> 00:53:31,840
That was the cloth.
825
00:53:31,842 --> 00:53:35,711
A smell like an eating house
and a pastry cook's
826
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:37,146
next door to each other
827
00:53:37,148 --> 00:53:39,581
with a laundry
next door to that.
828
00:53:40,151 --> 00:53:42,584
Mrs Cratchit entered
829
00:53:42,586 --> 00:53:45,487
flushed but smiling proudly
830
00:53:45,489 --> 00:53:48,724
with the pudding
like a speckled cannon ball.
831
00:53:48,959 --> 00:53:51,727
Everybody had something
to say about it
832
00:53:51,962 --> 00:53:54,730
but nobody said or thought
833
00:53:54,932 --> 00:53:58,467
it was a small pudding
for a large family.
834
00:53:58,636 --> 00:54:01,737
Any Cratchit would have blushed
to hint at such a thing.
835
00:54:03,474 --> 00:54:07,543
Then all the Cratchit family
drew round the hearth.
836
00:54:07,812 --> 00:54:10,612
A merry Christmas
to us all, my dears.
837
00:54:11,148 --> 00:54:12,548
God bless us.
838
00:54:12,917 --> 00:54:15,651
God bless us, every one!
839
00:54:15,653 --> 00:54:18,487
Said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
840
00:54:19,857 --> 00:54:22,057
He sat very close
to his father's side
841
00:54:22,059 --> 00:54:23,158
upon his little stool.
842
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:27,162
Bob held his withered
little hand in his
843
00:54:27,665 --> 00:54:30,065
as if he loved the child
844
00:54:30,067 --> 00:54:32,768
and wished to keep him
by his side
845
00:54:33,137 --> 00:54:36,738
and dreaded that he might
be taken from him.
846
00:54:38,476 --> 00:54:40,709
Spirit,
tell me if Tiny Tim will live.
847
00:54:42,580 --> 00:54:44,246
I see a vacant seat
848
00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:48,050
and a crutch without an owner,
carefully preserved.
849
00:54:54,191 --> 00:54:56,024
If these shadows remain
unaltered by the future
850
00:54:56,026 --> 00:54:57,092
the child will die.
851
00:54:57,094 --> 00:54:59,027
No, no, kind spirit.
852
00:54:59,029 --> 00:55:01,096
- Say he will be spared.
- If these shadows remain
853
00:55:01,098 --> 00:55:04,266
unaltered by the future,
no other of my race
854
00:55:04,268 --> 00:55:06,735
will find him here.
Well, what then?
855
00:55:07,905 --> 00:55:10,806
If he be like to die,
he had better do it
856
00:55:10,808 --> 00:55:13,108
and decrease
the surplus population.
857
00:55:13,511 --> 00:55:15,611
Scrooge hung his head
858
00:55:15,613 --> 00:55:18,881
to hear his own words
quoted by the spirit.
859
00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:22,851
Man, if man you be in heart
860
00:55:22,853 --> 00:55:26,054
not stone,
forbear that wicked cant
861
00:55:26,056 --> 00:55:29,224
until you have discovered
what the surplus is
862
00:55:29,226 --> 00:55:30,759
and where it is.
863
00:55:30,761 --> 00:55:34,530
Will you decide what men shall
live and what men shall die?
864
00:55:34,999 --> 00:55:37,099
It may be,
that in the sight of Heaven
865
00:55:37,101 --> 00:55:39,268
you are more worthless
and less fit to live
866
00:55:39,270 --> 00:55:42,204
than millions like this
poor man's child. Oh, God!
867
00:55:43,073 --> 00:55:46,608
To hear the insect on the leaf
pronouncing on the too-much-life
868
00:55:46,610 --> 00:55:48,710
among his hungry brothers
in the dust!
869
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,148
Scrooge bent
before the ghost's rebuke
870
00:55:53,651 --> 00:55:56,685
and trembling, cast his eyes
upon the ground.
871
00:55:57,688 --> 00:56:01,123
But he raised them speedily,
on hearing his own name.
872
00:56:01,125 --> 00:56:02,324
To Scrooge!
873
00:56:02,326 --> 00:56:06,662
I'll give you Mr Scrooge,
the founder of the feast!
874
00:56:06,664 --> 00:56:08,897
The founder of the feast indeed!
875
00:56:08,899 --> 00:56:10,666
I wish I had him here.
876
00:56:10,668 --> 00:56:12,901
I'd give him a piece of my mind
to feast upon
877
00:56:12,903 --> 00:56:15,003
and I hope he'd have
a good appetite for it!
878
00:56:15,005 --> 00:56:16,838
My dear, the children.
879
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:18,273
Christmas Day!
880
00:56:18,275 --> 00:56:20,108
I'll drink
his health for your sake
881
00:56:20,110 --> 00:56:21,710
and the day's, not for his!
882
00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:24,880
Tiny Tim drank it last of all
883
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:28,083
but he didn't care
two pence for it.
884
00:56:28,319 --> 00:56:31,587
Scrooge was the ogre
of the family.
885
00:56:33,757 --> 00:56:35,757
They were not a handsome family.
886
00:56:35,926 --> 00:56:37,793
They were not well dressed.
887
00:56:37,928 --> 00:56:40,796
Their shoes were far from
being waterproof
888
00:56:40,798 --> 00:56:42,998
their clothes were scanty
889
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,001
and Bob's might have known,
and very likely did
890
00:56:46,003 --> 00:56:48,070
the inside of a pawnbroker's.
891
00:56:48,939 --> 00:56:51,740
But they were happy, grateful
892
00:56:52,076 --> 00:56:53,308
pleased with one another
893
00:56:54,211 --> 00:56:56,979
and contented all the time.
894
00:56:58,248 --> 00:57:00,349
Scrooge had his eye upon them
895
00:57:00,918 --> 00:57:05,287
and especially on Tiny Tim,
until the last.
896
00:57:11,095 --> 00:57:12,828
It was a long night
897
00:57:13,697 --> 00:57:15,864
if it were only a night.
898
00:57:18,869 --> 00:57:21,103
Not to sea?
899
00:57:21,772 --> 00:57:23,171
To sea!
900
00:57:23,807 --> 00:57:26,108
To Scrooge's horror,
looking back
901
00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:28,276
he saw the last of the land
902
00:57:28,278 --> 00:57:31,680
and his ears were deafened
by the thundering of water
903
00:57:31,682 --> 00:57:34,082
as it rolled and roared.
904
00:57:34,218 --> 00:57:36,752
Mind yourself, Harry!
Don't drop the turkey!
905
00:57:37,688 --> 00:57:40,255
Built upon
a dismal reef of sunken rocks
906
00:57:40,257 --> 00:57:42,958
on which the waters
chafed and dashed
907
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,360
there stood
a solitary lighthouse...
908
00:57:45,362 --> 00:57:47,262
There's Christmas for you!
909
00:57:47,264 --> 00:57:50,766
...but even here,
every man among them
910
00:57:50,768 --> 00:57:52,901
hummed a Christmas tune!
911
00:57:54,805 --> 00:57:56,972
Again the ghost sped on
912
00:57:56,974 --> 00:57:59,374
above the black
and heaving sea...
913
00:58:02,746 --> 00:58:05,714
...until a light shone
from the window of a house
914
00:58:05,716 --> 00:58:08,116
and swiftly,
they advanced towards it.
915
00:58:12,823 --> 00:58:17,025
It was a great surprise to
Scrooge to hear a hearty laugh.
916
00:58:17,461 --> 00:58:19,861
It was a much greater surprise
to Scrooge
917
00:58:19,863 --> 00:58:22,431
to recognise it
as his own nephew's
918
00:58:22,433 --> 00:58:26,902
and to find himself in a bright,
dry, gleaming room.
919
00:58:28,005 --> 00:58:30,338
Clara, my dear,
what a lovely lunch!
920
00:58:32,776 --> 00:58:34,943
"Ha-ha-ha!"
921
00:58:35,746 --> 00:58:39,247
laughed Fred.
"Ha-ha-ha-ho!"
922
00:58:41,318 --> 00:58:46,254
It is a fair, even-handed,
noble adjustment of things
923
00:58:46,457 --> 00:58:49,858
that while there is infection
in disease and sorrow
924
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:53,829
there is nothing in the world
so irresistibly contagious
925
00:58:53,831 --> 00:58:56,498
as laughter and good humour.
926
00:58:59,103 --> 00:59:01,336
He said that Christmas
was a humbug!
927
00:59:01,338 --> 00:59:03,038
And he believed it too.
928
00:59:03,507 --> 00:59:05,941
More shame for him, Fred.
929
00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:08,844
He's a comical
old fellow, that's the truth
930
00:59:09,146 --> 00:59:11,780
and not so pleasant
as he might be.
931
00:59:11,782 --> 00:59:15,016
However, his offenses
carry their own punishment
932
00:59:15,018 --> 00:59:16,852
and I have nothing to say
against him.
933
00:59:16,854 --> 00:59:18,520
I'm sure he is very rich.
934
00:59:18,522 --> 00:59:20,822
At least, you always tell me so.
935
00:59:21,225 --> 00:59:23,825
His wealth is of no use to him.
936
00:59:23,827 --> 00:59:25,861
He doesn't make
any good with it.
937
00:59:25,863 --> 00:59:27,896
He doesn't make himself
comfortable with it.
938
00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:30,132
He hasn't the satisfaction
of thinking...
939
00:59:30,134 --> 00:59:31,900
...that he is ever
940
00:59:31,902 --> 00:59:33,902
going to benefit us with it.
941
00:59:34,338 --> 00:59:37,239
Oh...
I have no patience with him.
942
00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:38,340
Oh, I have.
943
00:59:38,542 --> 00:59:40,275
I'm sorry for him!
944
00:59:40,277 --> 00:59:42,244
Couldn't be angry with him
if I tried.
945
00:59:42,513 --> 00:59:44,513
Who suffers by his ill whims?
946
00:59:44,515 --> 00:59:46,782
Himself, always.
947
00:59:47,017 --> 00:59:49,818
Here, he takes it into his head
to dislike us
948
00:59:49,820 --> 00:59:51,520
and he won't come
and dine with us.
949
00:59:51,522 --> 00:59:52,988
What's the consequence?
950
00:59:53,857 --> 00:59:55,290
He doesn't lose
much of a dinner.
951
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:57,926
Indeed?
952
00:59:58,262 --> 01:00:00,796
I think he loses
a very good dinner.
953
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:05,834
Well, I'm very glad to hear it!
954
01:00:05,836 --> 01:00:08,270
Because I haven't great faith
in these young housekeepers.
955
01:00:09,039 --> 01:00:10,572
What do you say, Topper?
956
01:00:10,841 --> 01:00:12,574
Topper had clearly
got his eye on
957
01:00:12,576 --> 01:00:15,193
one of the ladies
958
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:17,813
for he answered that a bachelor
was a wretched outcast
959
01:00:17,815 --> 01:00:21,116
who had no right to express
an opinion on the subject.
960
01:00:21,819 --> 01:00:24,219
Fred revelled in another laugh
961
01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:27,856
and as it was impossible
to keep the infection off...
962
01:00:30,093 --> 01:00:32,894
A merry Christmas and
a happy New Year to the old man.
963
01:00:33,597 --> 01:00:36,364
He wouldn't take it from me,
but he may have it.
964
01:00:37,034 --> 01:00:40,302
Let us make a toast
to Uncle Scrooge!
965
01:00:52,216 --> 01:00:53,949
Who's for blind man's buff?
966
01:00:53,951 --> 01:00:55,283
Here's a new game!
967
01:00:56,053 --> 01:00:58,186
One half hour, Spirit, only one!
968
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:01,289
Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly
969
01:01:01,291 --> 01:01:03,859
become so gay and light of heart
970
01:01:03,861 --> 01:01:07,262
that he would have pledged the
unconscious company in return
971
01:01:07,264 --> 01:01:09,598
and thanked them
in an inaudible speech
972
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,600
if the ghost had given him time.
973
01:01:12,336 --> 01:01:15,937
But the whole scene passed off
in the breath of the last word.
974
01:01:25,082 --> 01:01:26,047
Hark.
975
01:01:26,049 --> 01:01:27,015
My life upon this globe
is very brief.
976
01:01:27,251 --> 01:01:29,551
The chimes
were ringing the three quarters
977
01:01:29,553 --> 01:01:31,319
past 11 at that moment.
978
01:01:46,470 --> 01:01:48,136
Please leave me alone.
979
01:01:50,173 --> 01:01:51,606
- Give it here.
- What are you doing?
980
01:01:52,376 --> 01:01:53,608
You want a good time?
981
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:58,213
You're hurting me!
982
01:01:58,215 --> 01:01:59,648
Come here, my darling.
983
01:02:22,639 --> 01:02:23,705
Go on, hit him!
984
01:02:25,175 --> 01:02:26,174
And again!
985
01:02:37,187 --> 01:02:38,486
Pull your razor, Jim.
986
01:02:51,401 --> 01:02:54,336
Forgive me if I am
not justified in what I ask
987
01:02:54,338 --> 01:02:57,372
but I see something strange,
and not belonging to yourself
988
01:02:57,374 --> 01:02:58,673
protruding from your skirts.
989
01:02:58,675 --> 01:03:01,409
- Is it a foot or a claw?
- It might be a claw
990
01:03:01,411 --> 01:03:02,744
for the flesh there is upon it.
991
01:03:04,047 --> 01:03:05,113
Look here.
992
01:03:05,115 --> 01:03:08,049
From the foldings of its robe
993
01:03:08,051 --> 01:03:09,317
it brought two children.
994
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,688
Wretched, abject, frightful
995
01:03:13,690 --> 01:03:16,024
hideous, miserable.
996
01:03:16,660 --> 01:03:18,760
They knelt down at its feet
997
01:03:19,162 --> 01:03:21,663
and clung upon the outside
of its garment.
998
01:03:21,665 --> 01:03:23,431
Oh, man, look here!
999
01:03:24,267 --> 01:03:25,133
Look!
1000
01:03:26,169 --> 01:03:27,435
Look, down here!
1001
01:03:28,105 --> 01:03:29,671
They were a boy and a girl.
1002
01:03:30,507 --> 01:03:33,675
Yellow, meagre, ragged
1003
01:03:33,677 --> 01:03:36,244
scowling, wolfish...
1004
01:03:37,147 --> 01:03:40,315
but prostrate, too,
in their humility.
1005
01:03:41,318 --> 01:03:44,152
Where angels might have
sat enthroned
1006
01:03:44,154 --> 01:03:47,622
devils lurked,
and glared out menacing.
1007
01:03:48,492 --> 01:03:53,228
No change, no degradation,
no perversion of humanity
1008
01:03:53,230 --> 01:03:57,198
has monsters half so horrible
and dread.
1009
01:03:58,668 --> 01:04:01,403
Scrooge started back, appalled.
1010
01:04:02,039 --> 01:04:04,339
Having them shown to him
in this way
1011
01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:07,475
he tried to say
they were fine children
1012
01:04:07,611 --> 01:04:10,512
but the words choked themselves
1013
01:04:10,514 --> 01:04:14,482
rather than be parties to a lie
of such enormous magnitude.
1014
01:04:15,085 --> 01:04:16,384
Spirit, are they yours?
1015
01:04:16,386 --> 01:04:17,819
They are man's.
1016
01:04:17,821 --> 01:04:20,789
And they cling to me,
appealing from their fathers.
1017
01:04:21,258 --> 01:04:22,557
This boy is Ignorance.
1018
01:04:22,559 --> 01:04:24,159
This girl is Want.
1019
01:04:24,361 --> 01:04:26,361
Beware them both,
and all of their degree
1020
01:04:26,363 --> 01:04:28,096
but most of all,
beware this boy...
1021
01:04:32,402 --> 01:04:35,370
...for on his brow I see that
written which is doom
1022
01:04:35,806 --> 01:04:37,572
unless the writing be erased.
1023
01:04:37,574 --> 01:04:39,507
Have they no refuge or resource?
1024
01:04:39,509 --> 01:04:41,176
Are there no workhouses?
1025
01:04:42,779 --> 01:04:44,746
Are there no prisons?
1026
01:04:54,758 --> 01:04:57,392
The Ghost
of Christmas Yet to Come.
1027
01:05:01,865 --> 01:05:04,365
Scrooge looked about him
for the ghost
1028
01:05:04,367 --> 01:05:05,834
and saw it not.
1029
01:05:06,736 --> 01:05:09,504
As the last stroke
ceased to vibrate
1030
01:05:09,673 --> 01:05:12,640
he remembered the prediction
of old Jacob Marley
1031
01:05:12,843 --> 01:05:16,711
and lifting up his eyes,
beheld a solemn phantom
1032
01:05:17,147 --> 01:05:18,880
draped and hooded
1033
01:05:18,882 --> 01:05:22,650
coming like a mist
along the ground towards him.
1034
01:05:24,354 --> 01:05:29,357
The phantom slowly,
gravely, silently approached.
1035
01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:34,662
When it came,
Scrooge bent down upon his knee.
1036
01:05:36,199 --> 01:05:40,368
It was shrouded
in a deep black garment
1037
01:05:40,370 --> 01:05:44,539
which concealed its head,
its face, its form
1038
01:05:44,708 --> 01:05:49,711
and left nothing of it visible
save one outstretched hand.
1039
01:05:52,816 --> 01:05:54,315
I am in the presence
1040
01:05:54,317 --> 01:05:56,451
of the Ghost of Christmas
Yet To Come?
1041
01:05:56,653 --> 01:05:58,653
The Spirit answered not
1042
01:05:58,655 --> 01:06:01,756
but pointed downward
with its hand.
1043
01:06:02,192 --> 01:06:03,925
You are about
to show me shadows
1044
01:06:03,927 --> 01:06:05,727
of the things
that have not happened
1045
01:06:05,729 --> 01:06:08,396
but will happen
in the time before us.
1046
01:06:09,299 --> 01:06:10,665
Is that so, Spirit?
1047
01:06:12,435 --> 01:06:16,271
Although well used
to ghostly company by this time
1048
01:06:16,439 --> 01:06:21,176
Scrooge feared the silent shape
so much
1049
01:06:21,378 --> 01:06:23,845
that his legs trembled
beneath him
1050
01:06:24,247 --> 01:06:26,548
and he found
that he could hardly stand
1051
01:06:26,550 --> 01:06:28,316
when he prepared to follow it.
1052
01:06:28,718 --> 01:06:30,451
I fear you...
1053
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:33,188
more than any spectre
I have seen.
1054
01:06:34,858 --> 01:06:37,458
But as I know your purpose
is to do me good
1055
01:06:37,460 --> 01:06:40,461
and as I hope to live to be
another man from what I was
1056
01:06:41,531 --> 01:06:43,498
I am prepared
to bear your company
1057
01:06:43,500 --> 01:06:45,500
and do it with a thankful heart.
1058
01:06:47,237 --> 01:06:47,969
Lead on.
1059
01:06:49,706 --> 01:06:50,772
Lead on.
1060
01:06:51,975 --> 01:06:53,608
The night is waning fast...
1061
01:06:54,444 --> 01:06:57,478
and it is precious time to me,
I know.
1062
01:07:33,016 --> 01:07:35,883
They scarcely seemed
to enter the city
1063
01:07:36,019 --> 01:07:38,620
but there they were,
in the heart of it
1064
01:07:38,622 --> 01:07:41,756
amongst the merchants,
who hurried up and down
1065
01:07:41,758 --> 01:07:44,025
and chinked the money
in their pockets
1066
01:07:44,027 --> 01:07:48,396
and conversed in groups,
as Scrooge had seen them often.
1067
01:07:49,366 --> 01:07:52,700
The spirit stopped beside one
little knot of businessmen.
1068
01:07:53,436 --> 01:07:56,504
Observing that the hand
was pointed to them
1069
01:07:56,506 --> 01:07:59,941
Scrooge advanced
to listen to their talk.
1070
01:08:07,717 --> 01:08:10,585
I don't know much
about it, either way.
1071
01:08:10,587 --> 01:08:12,687
I only know he's dead!
1072
01:08:14,291 --> 01:08:15,657
When did he die?
1073
01:08:15,825 --> 01:08:19,027
Ooh. Last night, I believe.
1074
01:08:19,896 --> 01:08:21,996
Why?
What was the matter with him?
1075
01:08:22,866 --> 01:08:25,466
I thought he'd never die.
1076
01:08:26,469 --> 01:08:27,635
God knows!
1077
01:08:28,705 --> 01:08:30,672
What has he done with his money?
1078
01:08:32,008 --> 01:08:34,309
Well, I haven't heard.
1079
01:08:34,611 --> 01:08:36,711
Left it to his company, perhaps.
1080
01:08:37,580 --> 01:08:40,882
He hasn't left it to me.
That's all I know.
1081
01:08:42,319 --> 01:08:45,987
Well, it's likely to be
a very cheap funeral
1082
01:08:46,423 --> 01:08:50,491
for upon my life, I don't know
of anybody to go to it.
1083
01:08:52,495 --> 01:08:55,530
Suppose we make up a party
and volunteer?
1084
01:08:56,499 --> 01:08:58,032
I don't mind going
1085
01:08:58,768 --> 01:09:01,002
if a lunch is provided
1086
01:09:01,571 --> 01:09:03,338
but I must be fed.
1087
01:09:08,011 --> 01:09:10,778
Scrooge was at first
inclined to be surprised
1088
01:09:10,780 --> 01:09:13,681
that the spirit should attach
importance to conversations
1089
01:09:13,683 --> 01:09:15,516
apparently so trivial
1090
01:09:15,518 --> 01:09:19,554
but feeling assured that they
must have some hidden purpose
1091
01:09:19,556 --> 01:09:22,790
he set himself to consider
what it was likely to be.
1092
01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:27,428
But nothing doubting that
to whomsoever they applied
1093
01:09:27,430 --> 01:09:30,765
they had some latent moral
for his own improvement.
1094
01:09:35,772 --> 01:09:37,739
They left the busy scene
1095
01:09:37,741 --> 01:09:40,041
and went into an obscure
part of the town
1096
01:09:40,043 --> 01:09:42,810
where Scrooge had never
penetrated before.
1097
01:09:42,812 --> 01:09:44,512
You've had the pipe long enough.
1098
01:09:44,514 --> 01:09:45,813
Pass it on.
1099
01:09:45,815 --> 01:09:47,014
The ways were foul...
1100
01:09:47,884 --> 01:09:49,050
Cut your liver out!
1101
01:09:49,619 --> 01:09:51,953
...the shops and houses wretched
1102
01:09:51,955 --> 01:09:54,422
the people half-naked, drunken
1103
01:09:54,424 --> 01:09:56,824
slipshod, ugly.
1104
01:09:57,894 --> 01:10:00,561
Alleys and archways,
like so many cesspools
1105
01:10:00,563 --> 01:10:04,766
disgorged their offenses
of smell and dirt and life
1106
01:10:04,768 --> 01:10:06,701
upon the straggling streets.
1107
01:10:06,703 --> 01:10:08,503
We don't talk to you lot.
1108
01:10:08,705 --> 01:10:11,572
The whole quarter
reeked with crime
1109
01:10:11,908 --> 01:10:14,409
with filth, and misery.
1110
01:10:15,011 --> 01:10:17,678
Far in this den
of infamous resort
1111
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,547
there was a low-browed,
beetling shop
1112
01:10:19,549 --> 01:10:21,416
below a penthouse roof
1113
01:10:21,418 --> 01:10:23,951
where iron, old rags, bottles
1114
01:10:23,953 --> 01:10:26,954
bones and greasy offal
were bought.
1115
01:10:27,624 --> 01:10:31,025
Sitting in among the wares
he dealt in, by a stove
1116
01:10:31,027 --> 01:10:33,561
was a grey-haired rascal
1117
01:10:33,730 --> 01:10:36,631
nearly 70 years of age.
1118
01:10:36,633 --> 01:10:39,734
Scrooge and the phantom came
into the presence of this man
1119
01:10:39,736 --> 01:10:42,570
just as a housekeeper
with a heavy bundle
1120
01:10:42,572 --> 01:10:44,205
slunk into the shop.
1121
01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:48,509
Every person has a right
to take care of themselves.
1122
01:10:48,511 --> 01:10:50,077
He always did.
1123
01:10:50,213 --> 01:10:53,514
Who's the worse for the loss
of a few things like these?
1124
01:10:53,516 --> 01:10:55,583
If he wanted to keep 'em
after he was dead
1125
01:10:55,585 --> 01:10:57,685
a wicked old screw
1126
01:10:57,787 --> 01:11:00,021
why wasn't it natural
in his lifetime?
1127
01:11:00,223 --> 01:11:02,657
If it had been,
he's have had somebody
1128
01:11:02,659 --> 01:11:05,793
to look after him
when he was struck with death
1129
01:11:05,795 --> 01:11:10,598
instead of lying gasping
out his last, alone by himself.
1130
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,601
It's the truest ever word
that was spoke.
1131
01:11:13,603 --> 01:11:14,869
It's a judgment on him.
1132
01:11:15,238 --> 01:11:17,071
Open the bundle,
old Joe, and let me know
1133
01:11:17,073 --> 01:11:18,206
the value of it.
1134
01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:20,541
What... what do you call this?
1135
01:11:20,543 --> 01:11:22,743
- Bed-curtains?
- Bed-curtains.
1136
01:11:24,581 --> 01:11:26,948
You don't mean to say
you took 'em down
1137
01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:29,550
rings and all,
with him lying there?
1138
01:11:29,552 --> 01:11:32,019
Yes, I do. Why not?
1139
01:11:32,021 --> 01:11:34,222
You were born
to make your fortune
1140
01:11:34,224 --> 01:11:36,057
and you'll certainly do it.
1141
01:11:36,192 --> 01:11:38,025
Ooh...
1142
01:11:38,027 --> 01:11:40,795
You may look through
that shirt till your eyes ache
1143
01:11:40,797 --> 01:11:44,165
but you won't find a hole in it,
nor a threadbare place.
1144
01:11:44,801 --> 01:11:47,668
It's the best he had,
and a fine one too.
1145
01:11:47,670 --> 01:11:49,937
They'd have wasted it,
if it hadn't been for me.
1146
01:11:49,939 --> 01:11:52,907
W...
What do you mean, wasting of it?
1147
01:11:52,909 --> 01:11:55,910
Putting it on him
to be buried in, to be sure!
1148
01:11:56,279 --> 01:12:00,014
Somebody was fool enough to
do it, but I took it off again.
1149
01:12:01,117 --> 01:12:04,085
Oh, this is the end of it,
you see.
1150
01:12:04,254 --> 01:12:07,088
He frightened everyone away
from him when he was alive
1151
01:12:07,090 --> 01:12:10,691
to profit us when he was dead!
1152
01:12:14,130 --> 01:12:16,130
If there is
any person in the town
1153
01:12:16,132 --> 01:12:18,833
who feels emotion
caused by this man's death
1154
01:12:19,102 --> 01:12:22,803
show that person to me, Spirit,
I beseech you.
1155
01:12:31,614 --> 01:12:36,183
♪ Good people, all ♪
1156
01:12:36,719 --> 01:12:40,955
♪ This Christmas time ♪
1157
01:12:47,130 --> 01:12:49,330
She's worried
to death by it all.
1158
01:12:50,133 --> 01:12:53,034
But they had to borrow,
for the kiddies.
1159
01:12:56,105 --> 01:12:58,973
The phantom
spread its dark robe before him
1160
01:12:58,975 --> 01:13:00,908
for a moment, like a wing
1161
01:13:00,910 --> 01:13:04,645
and withdrawing it,
revealed a room by daylight
1162
01:13:04,647 --> 01:13:06,781
where a mother
and her children were.
1163
01:13:12,956 --> 01:13:16,624
She was expecting someone,
and with anxious eagerness
1164
01:13:16,626 --> 01:13:18,292
for she walked
up and down the room
1165
01:13:18,294 --> 01:13:21,028
started at every sound,
looked out from the window
1166
01:13:23,766 --> 01:13:25,315
glanced at the clock.
1167
01:13:25,317 --> 01:13:26,867
At length, the long-expected
knock was heard.
1168
01:13:26,869 --> 01:13:29,637
She hurried to the door,
and met her husband
1169
01:13:29,639 --> 01:13:32,673
a man whose face
was careworn and depressed
1170
01:13:32,675 --> 01:13:34,008
though he was young.
1171
01:13:34,010 --> 01:13:37,645
There was a remarkable
expression in it now
1172
01:13:37,647 --> 01:13:42,283
a kind of serious delight,
of which he felt ashamed
1173
01:13:42,619 --> 01:13:45,086
and which he struggled
to repress.
1174
01:13:46,689 --> 01:13:48,122
Is it good or bad?
1175
01:13:48,958 --> 01:13:49,957
Bad.
1176
01:13:51,194 --> 01:13:53,060
We are quite ruined.
1177
01:13:54,163 --> 01:13:55,363
No.
1178
01:13:55,365 --> 01:13:56,964
There is hope yet, Caroline.
1179
01:13:58,635 --> 01:14:00,134
If he relents, there is.
1180
01:14:01,037 --> 01:14:02,903
Nothing is past hope
1181
01:14:03,106 --> 01:14:05,106
if such a miracle has happened.
1182
01:14:06,242 --> 01:14:07,742
He is past relenting.
1183
01:14:08,945 --> 01:14:10,211
He is dead.
1184
01:14:10,213 --> 01:14:12,947
She was a mild
and patient creature
1185
01:14:12,949 --> 01:14:14,882
if her face spoke truth
1186
01:14:15,251 --> 01:14:19,654
but she was thankful in her soul
to hear it
1187
01:14:19,656 --> 01:14:22,223
and she said so,
with clasped hands.
1188
01:14:22,992 --> 01:14:25,760
She prayed forgiveness
the next moment
1189
01:14:26,295 --> 01:14:27,828
and was sorry.
1190
01:14:28,131 --> 01:14:30,364
To whom shall
our debt be transferred?
1191
01:14:31,834 --> 01:14:33,000
I don't know.
1192
01:14:33,002 --> 01:14:36,370
But before that time,
we shall be ready with the money
1193
01:14:36,806 --> 01:14:39,907
and even though we were not,
it would be bad fortune indeed
1194
01:14:39,909 --> 01:14:42,443
to find so merciless a creditor
in his successor.
1195
01:14:44,147 --> 01:14:46,714
We shall sleep tonight
with light hearts, Caroline.
1196
01:15:08,204 --> 01:15:09,937
Let me see some tenderness
1197
01:15:09,939 --> 01:15:11,072
connected with the death.
1198
01:15:20,249 --> 01:15:22,717
They entered poor
Bob Cratchit's house
1199
01:15:22,719 --> 01:15:25,920
and found the mother and the
children seated round the fire.
1200
01:15:26,255 --> 01:15:28,889
Quiet. Very quiet.
1201
01:15:29,325 --> 01:15:32,426
The noisy little Cratchits
were as still as statues
1202
01:15:32,428 --> 01:15:33,761
in one corner.
1203
01:15:43,155 --> 01:15:44,872
The mother laid her work
upon the table
1204
01:15:45,074 --> 01:15:47,808
and put her hand up to her face.
1205
01:15:48,010 --> 01:15:49,410
Colour hurts my eyes.
1206
01:15:50,446 --> 01:15:52,813
It makes them weak
by candlelight
1207
01:15:53,316 --> 01:15:55,382
and I wouldn't show weak eyes
to your father
1208
01:15:55,384 --> 01:15:57,051
when he comes home,
for the world.
1209
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:00,488
It must be near his time.
1210
01:16:00,490 --> 01:16:01,822
Past it, rather.
1211
01:16:01,824 --> 01:16:04,992
But I think he's walked
a little slower than he used
1212
01:16:04,994 --> 01:16:07,128
these few last evenings, Mother.
1213
01:16:07,830 --> 01:16:09,997
I have known him
walk with Tiny Tim
1214
01:16:09,999 --> 01:16:12,399
upon his shoulder,
very fast indeed.
1215
01:16:12,802 --> 01:16:14,502
And so have I. Often.
1216
01:16:14,504 --> 01:16:16,103
His father loved him so
1217
01:16:16,105 --> 01:16:17,538
that it was no trouble...
1218
01:16:18,107 --> 01:16:20,841
Ah! And there is your father
at the door!
1219
01:16:24,013 --> 01:16:26,547
Two young Cratchits
got upon his knees
1220
01:16:26,549 --> 01:16:28,783
and laid each child
a little cheek
1221
01:16:28,785 --> 01:16:30,217
against his face.
1222
01:16:30,419 --> 01:16:32,019
Don't mind it, Father.
1223
01:16:32,255 --> 01:16:33,854
Don't be grieved.
1224
01:16:36,025 --> 01:16:38,159
Bob was very cheerful with them
1225
01:16:38,161 --> 01:16:40,294
and spoke pleasantly
to all the family.
1226
01:16:40,997 --> 01:16:43,130
He looked at the work
upon the table
1227
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:46,567
the shroud that would
clothe his son
1228
01:16:47,270 --> 01:16:50,004
and praised the industry
and speed
1229
01:16:50,006 --> 01:16:52,239
of Mrs Cratchit and the girls.
1230
01:16:53,342 --> 01:16:57,077
"They would be done
long before Sunday," he said.
1231
01:16:57,580 --> 01:16:59,547
You went today then, Robert?
1232
01:16:59,949 --> 01:17:01,048
Yes, my dear.
1233
01:17:02,585 --> 01:17:04,285
I wish you could have gone.
1234
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:06,887
It would've done you good
to see how green a place it is
1235
01:17:06,889 --> 01:17:07,888
where he will lay.
1236
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:10,825
But you'll see it often.
1237
01:17:12,495 --> 01:17:13,994
I promised him...
1238
01:17:15,031 --> 01:17:16,997
that I would walk there
on a Sunday.
1239
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,567
He broke down all at once.
1240
01:17:20,136 --> 01:17:21,435
He couldn't help it.
1241
01:17:34,250 --> 01:17:37,351
He left the room, and went
upstairs to the room above
1242
01:17:37,353 --> 01:17:40,387
which was lighted cheerfully,
and hung with Christmas.
1243
01:17:48,631 --> 01:17:51,599
There was a chair set close
beside the child
1244
01:17:52,034 --> 01:17:54,602
and there were signs of someone
having been there lately.
1245
01:17:56,138 --> 01:17:58,439
Poor Bob sat down in it
1246
01:17:59,208 --> 01:18:02,610
and when he had thought a little
and composed himself
1247
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,246
he kissed the little face.
1248
01:18:07,550 --> 01:18:09,650
My little, little child...
1249
01:18:11,387 --> 01:18:13,320
My little child.
1250
01:18:29,505 --> 01:18:32,172
They drew
about the fire, and talked
1251
01:18:32,174 --> 01:18:34,375
the girls and mother
working still.
1252
01:18:35,311 --> 01:18:38,279
Bob told them
of the extraordinary kindness
1253
01:18:38,281 --> 01:18:41,582
of Mr Fred, whom he had
scarcely seen but once
1254
01:18:41,584 --> 01:18:44,919
and who, meeting him
in the street that day
1255
01:18:45,688 --> 01:18:48,255
and seeing that he looked
a little subdued
1256
01:18:48,557 --> 01:18:50,090
asked after him.
1257
01:18:51,227 --> 01:18:53,127
Just a little down, you know.
1258
01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:57,698
On which, for he is the
pleasantest-spoken gentleman
1259
01:18:57,700 --> 01:18:59,099
you ever heard...
1260
01:18:59,535 --> 01:19:01,268
What has happened
to distress you?
1261
01:19:04,140 --> 01:19:05,172
I told him.
1262
01:19:07,510 --> 01:19:10,411
"I am heartily sorry for it,
Mr Cratchit
1263
01:19:10,413 --> 01:19:13,447
and heartily sorry
for your good wife.
1264
01:19:18,054 --> 01:19:20,521
If I can be of service
to you in any way," he said
1265
01:19:20,523 --> 01:19:23,023
giving me his card,
"That's where I live.
1266
01:19:24,193 --> 01:19:25,426
Pray, come to me."
1267
01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:40,207
Now, it really seemed as if
he had known our Tiny Tim
1268
01:19:43,279 --> 01:19:44,628
and felt with us.
1269
01:19:44,630 --> 01:19:45,980
I shouldn't be at all surprised,
mark what I say
1270
01:19:46,182 --> 01:19:49,116
if he got Peter
a better situation.
1271
01:19:49,118 --> 01:19:51,485
Oh! Only hear that, Peter!
1272
01:19:51,620 --> 01:19:53,354
But however and whenever
1273
01:19:53,356 --> 01:19:55,089
we part from one another
1274
01:19:55,091 --> 01:19:59,426
I am sure, we shall none of us
forget poor Tiny Tim, shall we?
1275
01:20:00,229 --> 01:20:02,730
Or this first parting
that there was among us.
1276
01:20:02,732 --> 01:20:04,264
No, Father.
1277
01:20:04,266 --> 01:20:06,033
And I know, my dears
1278
01:20:06,035 --> 01:20:09,269
that when we recollect how
patient and how mild he was
1279
01:20:09,271 --> 01:20:10,671
although he was a little...
1280
01:20:12,074 --> 01:20:13,507
little child...
1281
01:20:14,110 --> 01:20:16,543
we shall not quarrel
easily among ourselves
1282
01:20:16,545 --> 01:20:20,047
and forget poor Tiny Tim
in doing it.
1283
01:20:20,249 --> 01:20:21,482
No, never, Father.
1284
01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:23,317
I am very happy.
1285
01:20:25,321 --> 01:20:26,720
I am very happy.
1286
01:20:35,798 --> 01:20:37,664
Spectre, something informs me
1287
01:20:37,666 --> 01:20:39,600
that our parting moment
is at hand.
1288
01:20:40,636 --> 01:20:42,569
I know it, but I know not how.
1289
01:20:45,408 --> 01:20:48,542
Tell me what man that was
1290
01:20:48,544 --> 01:20:50,110
whom we saw lying dead.
1291
01:21:06,395 --> 01:21:08,529
The spirit
stood among the graves
1292
01:21:08,531 --> 01:21:10,464
and pointed down to one.
1293
01:21:11,500 --> 01:21:15,335
Scrooge advanced towards it,
trembling.
1294
01:21:16,238 --> 01:21:18,205
Before I draw nearer
to that stone
1295
01:21:18,207 --> 01:21:20,541
to which you point,
answer me one question.
1296
01:21:21,277 --> 01:21:23,710
Are these the shadows
of the things that will be
1297
01:21:23,712 --> 01:21:27,114
or are they shadows of things
that may be, only?
1298
01:21:27,450 --> 01:21:30,350
Still the ghost
pointed downward to the grave
1299
01:21:30,352 --> 01:21:31,718
by which it stood.
1300
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,188
Men's courses
will foreshadow certain ends
1301
01:21:34,190 --> 01:21:36,523
to which, if persevered in,
they must lead
1302
01:21:36,525 --> 01:21:38,859
but if the courses
be departed from
1303
01:21:38,861 --> 01:21:40,794
the ends will change.
1304
01:21:40,796 --> 01:21:43,297
Say it is thus
with what you show me.
1305
01:21:44,533 --> 01:21:47,134
The spirit
was immovable as ever.
1306
01:21:47,770 --> 01:21:51,472
Scrooge crept towards it,
trembling as he went.
1307
01:21:52,308 --> 01:21:54,508
Am I that man
who lay upon the bed?
1308
01:21:55,711 --> 01:21:57,377
Following the finger
1309
01:21:57,379 --> 01:22:00,614
read upon the stone
of the neglected grave
1310
01:22:00,850 --> 01:22:02,616
his own name...
1311
01:22:03,819 --> 01:22:06,653
Ebenezer Scrooge.
1312
01:22:18,834 --> 01:22:21,802
I hope he didn't die
of anything catching!
1313
01:22:25,674 --> 01:22:26,840
We are quite ruined.
1314
01:22:29,578 --> 01:22:32,146
The finger pointed
from the grave
1315
01:22:32,148 --> 01:22:34,648
to him and back again.
1316
01:22:36,218 --> 01:22:37,651
No, Spirit! No...
1317
01:22:41,157 --> 01:22:42,489
No!
1318
01:22:42,491 --> 01:22:43,824
Spirit, hear me.
I am not the man I was.
1319
01:22:45,895 --> 01:22:49,196
Why show me this,
if I am past all hope?
1320
01:22:49,398 --> 01:22:52,733
Good Spirit, assure me that
I yet may change these shadows
1321
01:22:52,735 --> 01:22:54,868
that you have shown me,
by an altered life.
1322
01:22:54,870 --> 01:22:57,204
I will honour Christmas
in my heart
1323
01:22:57,206 --> 01:22:58,839
and try to keep it all year.
1324
01:22:58,841 --> 01:23:01,675
I will live in the past,
the present, and the future.
1325
01:23:01,677 --> 01:23:05,345
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.
1326
01:23:05,347 --> 01:23:07,848
I will not shut out the lessons
that they teach.
1327
01:23:08,584 --> 01:23:09,616
Oh...
1328
01:23:09,618 --> 01:23:13,320
tell me I may sponge away
the writing on this stone!
1329
01:23:14,256 --> 01:23:17,391
In his agony,
he clasped the spectral body.
1330
01:23:17,593 --> 01:23:19,459
It sought to free itself
1331
01:23:19,461 --> 01:23:22,229
but he was strong in
his entreaty, and detained it.
1332
01:23:22,531 --> 01:23:25,566
The spirit, stronger yet,
repulsed him.
1333
01:23:25,868 --> 01:23:30,537
Holding up his hands in a last
prayer to have his fate reversed
1334
01:23:30,940 --> 01:23:33,507
he saw an alteration
in the phantom's hood.
1335
01:23:33,509 --> 01:23:36,276
It shrank, and collapsed
1336
01:23:36,278 --> 01:23:38,312
down into a bedpost.
1337
01:23:45,721 --> 01:23:48,255
Live in the past,
the present, and the future.
1338
01:23:48,257 --> 01:23:51,325
The spirits of all three
shall strive within me.
1339
01:23:51,327 --> 01:23:53,660
I will not shut out
the lessons that they teach!
1340
01:23:57,366 --> 01:23:58,498
Oh, Jacob Marley!
1341
01:23:58,500 --> 01:24:01,668
Heaven, and the Christmastime
be praised for this.
1342
01:24:02,271 --> 01:24:05,005
I shall kneel, old Jacob,
on my knees.
1343
01:24:06,475 --> 01:24:07,541
Ah!
1344
01:24:07,910 --> 01:24:09,543
They are not torn down.
1345
01:24:10,613 --> 01:24:12,012
They are not torn down!
1346
01:24:13,582 --> 01:24:15,849
Rings and all. They are here...
1347
01:24:17,686 --> 01:24:18,952
I am here!
1348
01:24:19,855 --> 01:24:21,955
The shadows of the things
that would have been
1349
01:24:21,957 --> 01:24:23,423
may be dispelled.
1350
01:24:23,425 --> 01:24:24,458
They will be!
1351
01:24:24,860 --> 01:24:25,959
I know they will.
1352
01:24:35,704 --> 01:24:37,271
I don't know what to do!
1353
01:24:38,641 --> 01:24:41,742
I am as... light as a feather!
1354
01:24:41,910 --> 01:24:43,844
I am as happy as an angel!
1355
01:24:43,979 --> 01:24:47,681
I am as merry as a schoolboy,
I am as giddy as a drunken man!
1356
01:24:48,684 --> 01:24:50,817
A merry Christmas to everyone!
1357
01:24:52,288 --> 01:24:55,322
A happy New Year
to all the world!
1358
01:24:56,558 --> 01:24:57,791
Hello there!
1359
01:24:58,060 --> 01:24:59,359
Woo!
1360
01:24:59,361 --> 01:25:02,029
There's the saucepan
that the gruel was in!
1361
01:25:02,031 --> 01:25:04,698
There's the corner the Ghost
of Christmas Present sat.
1362
01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:07,801
There's the window where
I saw the wandering spirits!
1363
01:25:07,803 --> 01:25:10,737
It's all right, it's all true.
It all happened!
1364
01:25:14,777 --> 01:25:16,610
I don't know
what day of the month it is
1365
01:25:16,612 --> 01:25:18,612
I don't know how long
I've been among the spirits.
1366
01:25:18,614 --> 01:25:19,780
I don't know anything!
1367
01:25:20,482 --> 01:25:22,683
I'm... quite a baby.
1368
01:25:23,952 --> 01:25:25,686
Never mind. I don't care!
1369
01:25:26,722 --> 01:25:28,355
I'd rather be a baby!
1370
01:25:29,458 --> 01:25:31,325
Hello, whoop!
1371
01:25:31,327 --> 01:25:32,559
Hello there!
1372
01:25:32,561 --> 01:25:35,495
Running
to the window, he opened it
1373
01:25:35,497 --> 01:25:36,897
and put out his head.
1374
01:25:36,899 --> 01:25:39,399
No fog, no mist.
1375
01:25:39,401 --> 01:25:43,070
Clear, bright, sweet, fresh air!
1376
01:25:43,072 --> 01:25:46,740
Merry bells. Oh, glorious!
1377
01:25:47,042 --> 01:25:48,709
Glorious!
1378
01:25:48,944 --> 01:25:50,677
What's today, my fine fellow?
1379
01:25:50,679 --> 01:25:52,512
Today? Why, Christmas Day.
1380
01:25:52,681 --> 01:25:55,515
It's Christmas Day!
I haven't missed it.
1381
01:25:55,918 --> 01:25:57,751
The spirits have done it
all in one night!
1382
01:25:57,753 --> 01:25:59,619
They can do anything they like,
of course they can.
1383
01:25:59,621 --> 01:26:02,456
Of course they can...
Hello, my fine fellow!
1384
01:26:02,458 --> 01:26:04,658
Do you know the poulterer's,
in the next street but one?
1385
01:26:04,660 --> 01:26:06,126
I should hope I did.
1386
01:26:06,729 --> 01:26:08,962
An intelligent boy!
A remarkable boy!
1387
01:26:09,098 --> 01:26:11,131
Do you know whether
they've sold the prize turkey
1388
01:26:11,133 --> 01:26:12,566
that was hanging up there?
1389
01:26:12,568 --> 01:26:14,134
Not the little prize turkey.
The big one?
1390
01:26:14,136 --> 01:26:15,569
What...
1391
01:26:15,571 --> 01:26:17,404
- The one as big as me?
- What a delightful boy!
1392
01:26:17,406 --> 01:26:18,638
It's a pleasure to talk to him.
1393
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:19,940
Yes, my buck!
1394
01:26:19,942 --> 01:26:21,808
- It's hanging there now.
- Is it?
1395
01:26:21,810 --> 01:26:22,876
Go and buy it.
1396
01:26:22,878 --> 01:26:23,910
Walker!
1397
01:26:23,912 --> 01:26:25,379
No, no, I am in earnest.
1398
01:26:25,381 --> 01:26:27,647
Go and buy it,
and tell them to bring it here
1399
01:26:27,649 --> 01:26:29,883
that I may give them
the direction where to take it.
1400
01:26:29,885 --> 01:26:31,885
Come back with the man,
and I'll give you a shilling.
1401
01:26:31,887 --> 01:26:34,020
Come back with him
in less than five minutes
1402
01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:35,422
and I'll give you half a crown.
1403
01:26:37,793 --> 01:26:39,493
I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!
1404
01:26:39,995 --> 01:26:41,661
He shan't know who sends it.
1405
01:26:47,703 --> 01:26:49,803
It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.
1406
01:27:03,786 --> 01:27:06,920
He dressed himself
all in his best
1407
01:27:06,922 --> 01:27:09,689
and at last,
got out into the streets.
1408
01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:13,560
He had not gone far,
when coming on towards him
1409
01:27:13,562 --> 01:27:15,061
he beheld the gentlemen
1410
01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:17,864
who had accosted him
the day before, and said
1411
01:27:17,866 --> 01:27:19,733
"Scrooge and Marley's,
I believe."
1412
01:27:20,803 --> 01:27:22,702
Dear sir, how do you do?
1413
01:27:22,704 --> 01:27:24,438
I hope you succeeded yesterday?
1414
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:25,872
Mr Scrooge?
1415
01:27:25,874 --> 01:27:27,073
That is my name
1416
01:27:27,075 --> 01:27:29,075
and I fear it may not be
pleasant to you.
1417
01:27:29,511 --> 01:27:31,144
Allow me to ask your pardon.
1418
01:27:31,580 --> 01:27:33,146
And will you have
the goodness...
1419
01:27:35,117 --> 01:27:36,450
Lord bless me!
1420
01:27:36,985 --> 01:27:39,052
My dear Mr Scrooge,
are you serious?
1421
01:27:39,054 --> 01:27:40,821
If you please,
not a farthing less.
1422
01:27:40,823 --> 01:27:43,223
A great many back-payments are
included in it, I assure you.
1423
01:27:43,692 --> 01:27:45,459
Will you do me that favour?
1424
01:27:45,461 --> 01:27:47,928
I don't know what to say
to such munificence!
1425
01:27:47,930 --> 01:27:50,464
Don't say anything.
Please, come and see me.
1426
01:27:50,466 --> 01:27:51,665
Will you come and see me?
1427
01:27:51,667 --> 01:27:53,066
We will!
1428
01:27:53,068 --> 01:27:55,569
Thank you.
I am much obliged to you.
1429
01:27:55,571 --> 01:27:57,771
I thank you 50 times. Bless you!
1430
01:27:59,007 --> 01:28:01,875
The people were,
by this time, pouring forth
1431
01:28:01,877 --> 01:28:04,544
as he had seen them with
the Ghost of Christmas Present.
1432
01:28:05,681 --> 01:28:07,581
He walked about the streets
1433
01:28:07,583 --> 01:28:10,250
and watched the people
hurrying to and fro
1434
01:28:10,252 --> 01:28:14,087
and patted children on the head,
and questioned beggars
1435
01:28:14,256 --> 01:28:17,057
and looked down
into the kitchens of houses
1436
01:28:17,059 --> 01:28:19,092
and up to the windows
1437
01:28:19,094 --> 01:28:22,863
and found that everything
could yield him pleasure.
1438
01:28:30,906 --> 01:28:33,640
He had never dreamed
that any walk
1439
01:28:35,077 --> 01:28:36,626
that anything...
1440
01:28:36,628 --> 01:28:38,178
could give him
so much happiness.
1441
01:28:48,557 --> 01:28:50,590
In the afternoon,
he turned his steps
1442
01:28:50,592 --> 01:28:52,025
towards his nephew's house.
1443
01:28:54,029 --> 01:28:56,296
He passed the door
a dozen times
1444
01:28:56,298 --> 01:28:58,732
before he had the courage
to go up and knock.
1445
01:28:59,134 --> 01:29:01,701
But he made a dash, and did it.
1446
01:29:06,708 --> 01:29:10,577
He opened the door gently,
and sidled his face in.
1447
01:29:16,084 --> 01:29:17,951
They were looking at the table
1448
01:29:18,186 --> 01:29:20,921
which was spread out
in great array
1449
01:29:21,323 --> 01:29:25,125
for these young housekeepers are
always nervous on such points
1450
01:29:25,127 --> 01:29:27,894
and like to see
that everything is right.
1451
01:29:28,797 --> 01:29:30,030
Why, bless my soul!
1452
01:29:30,666 --> 01:29:31,765
Who's that?
1453
01:29:32,734 --> 01:29:33,967
It's I.
1454
01:29:33,969 --> 01:29:35,168
Uncle Scrooge.
1455
01:29:35,938 --> 01:29:37,003
I've come to dinner.
1456
01:29:37,806 --> 01:29:39,105
Will you let me in, Fred?
1457
01:29:42,077 --> 01:29:43,877
Let him in?
1458
01:29:44,146 --> 01:29:47,581
It is a mercy
he didn't shake his arm off!
1459
01:29:47,749 --> 01:29:50,650
He was at home in five minutes.
1460
01:29:50,652 --> 01:29:52,586
Nothing could be heartier.
1461
01:29:53,055 --> 01:29:55,255
Fred's wife
looked just the same.
1462
01:29:55,724 --> 01:29:57,824
So did Topper when he came.
1463
01:29:57,826 --> 01:30:00,226
So did the plump lady when
she came.
1464
01:30:00,228 --> 01:30:03,163
So did everyone when they came!
1465
01:30:03,665 --> 01:30:06,066
Wonderful party,
wonderful games
1466
01:30:06,068 --> 01:30:08,001
wonderful unanimity
1467
01:30:08,136 --> 01:30:11,071
wonderful happiness!
1468
01:30:25,687 --> 01:30:28,021
But he was early at the office
next morning.
1469
01:30:28,023 --> 01:30:30,123
Oh, he was early there.
1470
01:30:30,692 --> 01:30:33,259
If he could only be there first
1471
01:30:33,261 --> 01:30:35,962
and catch Bob Cratchit
coming late!
1472
01:30:36,131 --> 01:30:38,832
That was the thing
he'd set his heart upon.
1473
01:30:38,834 --> 01:30:41,768
And he did it! Yes, he did.
1474
01:30:41,970 --> 01:30:43,770
The clock struck nine...
1475
01:30:44,172 --> 01:30:45,205
No Bob.
1476
01:30:45,641 --> 01:30:47,073
A quarter past...
1477
01:30:47,676 --> 01:30:48,908
No Bob.
1478
01:30:48,910 --> 01:30:51,978
He was a full 18 minutes
and a half
1479
01:30:51,980 --> 01:30:53,680
behind his time.
1480
01:30:53,949 --> 01:30:56,149
Scrooge sat with his door
wide open
1481
01:30:56,151 --> 01:30:58,184
that he might see him enter.
1482
01:30:58,654 --> 01:31:00,820
His hat was off
before he opened the door
1483
01:31:00,822 --> 01:31:03,389
his comforter too.
1484
01:31:03,391 --> 01:31:05,959
He was on his stool in a jiffy,
driving away with his pen
1485
01:31:05,961 --> 01:31:08,395
as if he were trying
to overtake nine o'clock.
1486
01:31:08,964 --> 01:31:10,096
Hello.
1487
01:31:10,098 --> 01:31:12,398
What do you mean by coming here
at this time of day?
1488
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,701
I'm very sorry, sir.
I am behind my time.
1489
01:31:14,703 --> 01:31:17,003
You are. Yes, I think you are.
1490
01:31:17,406 --> 01:31:19,105
Step this way, if you please.
1491
01:31:19,107 --> 01:31:20,707
I-It's only once a year, sir.
1492
01:31:20,709 --> 01:31:22,008
It shall not be repeated.
1493
01:31:22,010 --> 01:31:24,310
I was making rather merry
yesterday, sir.
1494
01:31:24,312 --> 01:31:26,112
Now,
I'll tell you what, my friend
1495
01:31:26,114 --> 01:31:27,847
I'm not going to stand
this sort of thing any longer
1496
01:31:27,849 --> 01:31:28,882
and therefore...
1497
01:31:30,419 --> 01:31:33,453
And therefore,
I am about to raise your salary.
1498
01:31:34,122 --> 01:31:35,754
Bob trembled
1499
01:31:35,756 --> 01:31:37,389
and got a little nearer
to the poker.
1500
01:31:37,693 --> 01:31:40,960
He had a momentary idea of
knocking Scrooge down with it
1501
01:31:40,962 --> 01:31:43,797
holding him, and calling to
the people in the court for help
1502
01:31:43,799 --> 01:31:45,231
and a strait-waistcoat.
1503
01:31:45,701 --> 01:31:46,966
A merry Christmas, Bob.
1504
01:31:47,703 --> 01:31:50,303
A merrier Christmas, Bob,
my good fellow
1505
01:31:50,305 --> 01:31:52,172
than I have given you
for many a year.
1506
01:31:52,174 --> 01:31:53,840
I'll raise your salary
1507
01:31:53,842 --> 01:31:56,009
and endeavour to assist
your struggling family
1508
01:31:56,011 --> 01:31:58,845
and we will discuss your affairs
this very afternoon
1509
01:31:58,847 --> 01:32:01,281
over a Christmas bowl
of smoking bishop, Bob!
1510
01:32:02,851 --> 01:32:04,951
Make up the fires,
buy another coalscuttle
1511
01:32:04,953 --> 01:32:07,420
before you dot another "i",
Bob Cratchit!
1512
01:32:16,932 --> 01:32:19,966
Scrooge was as good as his word.
1513
01:32:19,968 --> 01:32:23,369
He did it all,
and infinitely more.
1514
01:32:23,939 --> 01:32:27,040
And to Tiny Tim,
who did not die
1515
01:32:27,209 --> 01:32:29,209
he was a second father.
1516
01:32:29,811 --> 01:32:33,780
He became as good a friend
1517
01:32:34,149 --> 01:32:35,882
as good a master
1518
01:32:35,884 --> 01:32:38,218
and as good a man
1519
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:40,854
as the good old city knew
1520
01:32:40,856 --> 01:32:43,456
or any other good old city,
town or borough
1521
01:32:43,458 --> 01:32:45,859
in the good old world.
1522
01:32:47,262 --> 01:32:51,397
Some people laughed to see
the transformation in him
1523
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:54,534
but he let them laugh,
and heeded them little
1524
01:32:54,536 --> 01:32:56,903
for he was wise enough to know
1525
01:32:57,072 --> 01:33:00,840
that nothing ever happened
on the globe, for good
1526
01:33:00,976 --> 01:33:02,842
at which some people
1527
01:33:02,844 --> 01:33:06,412
had not had their fill
of laughter at the outset
1528
01:33:07,249 --> 01:33:10,350
and since he knew
such as these were blind anyway
1529
01:33:10,352 --> 01:33:12,819
he thought it just as well that
their eyes should wrinkle up
1530
01:33:12,821 --> 01:33:16,122
in laughter, as have the malady
in less attractive forms.
1531
01:33:18,426 --> 01:33:22,128
He had no further intercourse
with spirits
1532
01:33:22,430 --> 01:33:26,533
but lived life according to
the Total Abstinence Principle
1533
01:33:26,535 --> 01:33:28,001
ever after.
1534
01:33:30,505 --> 01:33:32,071
And it was said of him
1535
01:33:32,507 --> 01:33:36,276
that he knew how to keep
Christmas well
1536
01:33:36,278 --> 01:33:39,045
if any man in the world
had such knowledge.
1537
01:33:40,315 --> 01:33:42,282
Let that be truly said of us
1538
01:33:42,818 --> 01:33:44,450
and all of us.
1539
01:33:46,021 --> 01:33:47,887
And, as Tiny Tim observed...
1540
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"God bless us, every one."
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