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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13,

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SCROOGE! A grasping, covetous, old sluner! Hard and sharp as flint; secret, and self- contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out in his grating voice. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

Once upon a time-on Christ- mas Eve-old Scroogt sat. busy In his counting-house. A door was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal idle cell beyond was copying letters,

Unclef

a cheerful voleo-the voice

"Bah" said Scrooge, bug" "Merry Christmas! What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough,"

expectant clerk: "Christmas Is a poor excuse for picking o'man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December! But I uppbeo you must have the whole day. Be hero all the earlier next morn

ing.".

Three Spirits.

"You will he haunted, by vilts, you cannot hope to chun Willout their

the path' I tread.",

tried to

at the

Condensation:Mode Especially for Thir Page

By CLARK "KINNAIRD-

"Spirit, removal me from this ploce!"

He was conscious" of being oheneane by ab irresisubla drowsiness; and, further, of be- ing in his own bedroom. He lind barely time to reel to bed, befora he sink into a heavy sleep.

als

Awakening -in the mid- of, a prodigiously tough suore, he found himself the very "A Merry Christmas,

Scrooge

The took his melancholy

spectro floated out core and centre of a blaze of God save you" suddenly cried dinner in his usual melancholy through the closed window.

rudly light, which streamed in Scrooge of tavern; and went home to bed.

May from the affolding roon. Ha Scrooge's nephew, Fred, come He llyed in chambers which "Humbug!" but stopped unawares upon him.

had once belonged to his part first syllable. And being much got up and went to the door. ner, Jocob Marley. Marley was in need of repose, went straight It was his own room. Buit "Human dend as a door nåll,

to bed, without undressing, and had undergono a, surprising tril asleep upon the instant. transformatior,The walls and Scrooge, having his key in the When Scrooge nwoke, he celling were so hung with lving Lock of the door, caw in the found himself face to Lace green, holly, mistleme and ivy. knocker without its undergoing with an unearthly visitor. A mighty blaze went roar- "Come, then," returned

the any

intermediate process of was a strange figure Lilco a ing up the chimney. Heaped nephew. gally. "What reason chano-not knocker, but child, yet not so like a child as upon the floor, to form a kind of have you to be terase? You're Marley's face.

like an old man, viewed through throne, were' turkeys geėse, rich enough."

some supernatural medium. То

grane, poultry, brawn greși Бат that ho was not

"Whoy, and what are startled, would be untrue. But Scrooge demanded.

you?" jurts of ment, sucking-pigs, long he turned the key sturdily,

wreaths of sausages, mincepics, om the Ghost of Christmas plum puddings, walked in,

barrels and lighted his Past. Your pasil Risel and walk oysters, red hot chestnuts, cherry candle.

with mel"

cheeked apples, juley oranges, they passed through the wat, cakes and seeibing bowls of As the words were spoken, luselous pears, immense twelfth and the years of Surooge's past punch, that made the chamber rolled back, they were din with their delicious steam. traversing the scenes of us in easy state upon his couch childhood and young manhood thero sat a jolly Glaner

"What clsc can I be," TO- turned the uncle, "when I live In such a world of fools as this

could Merry Christmas! it work my wil" sald Scrooge, indignantly, "every

1

his

his

However, before he shut door, he walked, through rooms to see that all was right Quite satisfled. he locked him- lot self in: put on his dressing-gown end slippers, and night-cap; and sat down before the fire.

goes about with Merry Christ- mas' on his lips should be bolled with his own pudding. Much good it has ever done you!"

of

on other Christmas Eves.

*Come In!" "exclaimed - the The Ghost stopped at a cer- Ghost. "Come in! and krów me tain warehouse door.

botter, man! I em the Ghoes of Christmas Present)" ·

The replace was 'an, old, one, poved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate

He took the costly submicstva the Scriptures; and yet that face

Scrooge away on wings of wind of Marley,

seven years dead,

to the four-room house jof. Bob was in every one!

Cratchit, Scrooge's clerk, . ."I Was apprenticed here!"

There was Cratchit's wife, "Humbug" said Scrooge; and Scrooge exclaimed At sight of dressed qut but poorly inn walked across the room,

an bid gentleman he cried in ex- twice-turied gown, but bravo in citement:

A disused bell, that hung - In

ribbons; and sho Inid, the cloth, nesisted" by Belinda, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; walle Master Peter

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not pro fited, 1 dare say," returned the nephew, "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round-

"why, it's old Fezziwig!" apart from the veneration due the room, began to swing and Old Fezziwig lold down his to its sacred name and origin, if ring. This might have lasted pen, and looked up at the clock,

ything belonging to it can be balf a minute, or a minute, but which pointed to the hour plunged a fone into the saucepan. apart from that as a good time; It seemed an hour. They were soven. He rubbed his hands; kl of potatoes, and getting the a kind, forgiving, charitable, succeeded by a clanking noise, justed his capacions waistcoat;- pleasant times the only time I deep down below, as if some laughed alt over himself from corners of his monstrous shirt

collar (Bob's private property. know of, in the long calendar of person were dragging a heavy his shoes to his organ of conferred upon his son and heir the year, when men and women chain, godine kredinem, k benevolence; and called out:

In honour of the day) into his scern by one consent to open.

Ebenezert Yo ho, there! humbugs!D?" salg: their shutup hearts freely; and Serooge.. "I won't believe it"

mouth, rejoicea to find himselt "Dick"

so gallantly attired, and yearned to think of people below them

Scrooge's former self came to show his linea in the fashion- His colour changed, though, briskly in, us if they really were fellow-

accompanied by a able Parks, And now two smaller passengers to the grave, and not when, without a pause, it came fellow-prentice.

on, through the heavy-door, and ho, my

Cratchits, boy and gli), ¦ 'camo boys" sald touring in, screaming that out- on other journeys. I belleve Fassed into the room before his Feziwig. "No more work to side the batter's they had smal

another race of creatures bound

that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"

"You're quite

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night, Christmas Evel Clear the goose, and known it for their Marley's ghost! Marley in his way, my Inds, and let's have own; and basking in luxurious rig-tail, usual waistcoat, and lots of room here!" It was done thoughts of sage and enton, Liese books. The chain he drew was in a minute. Every movable young Crateblis danced about Clasped about his middle. It was was packed off; the floor was the table.

mato of cash boxes, keys, pad event and watered, the lamps

locks, ledgers, deeds and heavy were trimmed, fuel was heaped

purses wrought in-sheci, His upon the fire.

肆 powerful body was transparent; so that In came a fiddler and tuned

epeaker, sir, I wonder you don't gerooge, loolding through his like fitly. In came Mrs Fezzl

go into Parliament."

"Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”

afternoon," "Good Scrooge. "Bahl"

waistcoat, could see the two but wig and the three Miss Fozzi Ana in came little Bob, the tord on his coat behind.

wigs, bearing. In camo the six father, with at least three foot young followers whose hearts of comforter exclusive of the "How now!" said Scrooge, they broke, In came all the fringe, hanging down before him;

This sall coustic and cold as ever." "What young men and women craploy- and

threadbare clothes do you want with me?"

"You don't believe in me,' observed the Ghost,

Hus phew left the room without an angry word, not withstanding. He stopped at the outer door to exchange the greetings of the season with the clerk, Bcb Cratchit,

""I don't," said Scrooge,

Why senses?"

ed in the business, Away they darned up and brushed, to looke all went, 20 couples at once; seasoriable; and Tiny Tim upon hands ball round and back again his shoulder. Ains for Tiny Tim, the other way; down the middle be bore 'n litile crutch, and had da: you doubt your and up again; round and round. his limbs supported by an in Terziwig, clapping his hands to frame! "Becaure."." sald. Serooge, "a stop the dance, cried out, "Well "Why, where's our Martha?" Hittle thing affects them. A eight donel" and the fiddler plunged cried Bob Cratchit, looking edsorder of the stomach mbkes bla hot faco into a pot of porter, around..

enid Mra

*

"There's another fellow," them cheats. You may be on There were moro dances, and "Not coming," muttered Scrooge, who over- undigested 51 of beer, a blot of there were forfeita, and more Cratchit, heard him: "my clerk, with inustard, a crim's of theese, dances, and there was cake, and "Not coming!" said Bob. "Not fifteen shillings a week, and a fragment of Bri underdone there was nogus, and there was coming upon Christmas Day!” wife and family, talking about a potato, Thère's more of gravy, a great plese of Cold Roast, and His eldest daughter, Martha, merry Christmas. I'll retire to then of grave shout you, what there was a great piece of Colf an apprentice mald home for Bedlam.

ever you art.

Boiled, and there were mince- the day, didnt like to see Tiles The spirit'rdiced a frightful ples, and plenty of beer.

diappointed, if were only in Serocke resumed his labours cry, and shook le chain with

During the whole at this time, jokej so she came out premature- withi An improved oplaton such a dismal and appalling Scrooge had acted like a man ly from behind the closet door, of himself. That afternoon he also that Scrooge fell upon his out of his wits. His bears and where the had hidden, and ran turned away two gentlemen knees,

soul were in the scene, and with into his arms, while the two soliciting Christmas help for the "Mercy!" he said. "Dreadful his former self. He told the young Cratchits bore of Tay poor. There were workhouses, apparition, why do you trouble Ghost

Tim that he might hear, the "I should like to be able to pudding cinging in the copper, wirn say a word or twe to my clerk

Bob compounded some hot 'you,' that you have yet a chance just now,"

mixture in a jug with "gia and and hope of escaping my fate. They treaded through more of lemons, and sired it round and When the hour of shutting up A chanes and hope of my Scrooge's bygone years until round and put it on the hop to arrived, Scrooge rasped to the procuring, Ebenezer:

Serongo cried, in a broken voice: simmer; Master Peter and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits want to fetch the goooo, with which they soon returned in high processiori.

what more did the poor tm1? mom here tonight to

He drove off a lad who attempt- ed to sing a Christmas carol under His window.

"There never was such a gopse!'!... Christmas at the Crotchits. This and other illustrations, onchli, paga Jara reproduced from the famous drawings by John Leash-for the original edition."

Such a busile ensued that you might have thought . goose the Tarost of all birdə—and in truth it was something very like. It in that houre. Mrs Cratchit, modo the gravy Poter mashed the ptatoes with incredible vigour, Mias Belinda sweetened a the angle sauce: the two young Cratchita set chairs for 'every« body, not forgetting themselves, and mounting grated upon their posts, crammed spoons -, ante, their mouth, lest they should alrisk for goose belong their tum came to be helped. At last the dishes were sot cas, and groog was, naid. It was · ́suc- croded by a breathlesh pauan, De Mr Cratchit prepared to plunge it in the breast; but, witen she did, and the "long=" expected gush of stuffrig, Asstod forth, one murmur of dolight arosd all round the board.

There never was much .. googel Its tenderness and flavour, nice" and "cheapnione,” were the thenes of universal'admiration. Eked out by....apple-asuJON VRIG mashed potatoes, 1 Wad