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Speaker 1: Theater presents a.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm a g Marshall. This is a very special

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occasion for me. I'm to be a little more than

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your host. This time I will not only be introducing

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the story, but telling it to you, acting it out.

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The Mystery Theater special Christmas story this year Charles Dickens

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The Immortal Classic of Christmas Carol with guess who as.

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Speaker 3: Scrooge ah humbug our mister.

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Speaker 2: A Christmas Carrol was adapted from the Charles Dickens classic,

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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin.

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Speaker 3: I'll do that shortly.

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Speaker 2: With that one, Charles Dickens A Christmas Carrol begins like this.

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Speaker 3: Marley was dead to begin with, there is no doubt

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about that. Whatever.

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Speaker 2: The register of his burial was signed by the woman,

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the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.

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Speaker 3: Screw sided Old Marley was dead as a doornail. Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh.

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Speaker 2: He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, hard

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and sharpest flint from which no steel had ever struck out.

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Generous fire. Solitary is an oyster. He iced his office

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in the dark days and didn't throw it out one degree,

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even at Christmas. A Merry Christmas, uncle, God, say you, oh,

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what old you nephew? What brings you here on a

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mirrable cold, windy night like enough?

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Speaker 3: Cold and windy?

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Speaker 2: Yes, and the snow falling softly?

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Speaker 3: Are perfect Christmas eve? To say? Merry Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Uncle?

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Speaker 3: Ah, humbug? Christmas a humbug? If you don't mean that,

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I'm sure I do. Merry Christmas?

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Speaker 2: What right have you to be married or the world

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at large? What reason have you yourself to be married?

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You're poor enough?

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Speaker 3: Come there enough? What reason of you to be dismal?

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What reason of you to be morose? You're rich enough?

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Don't you taunt me? Fred bah?

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Speaker 2: Don't indulge yourself in expectations.

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Speaker 3: Humbug.

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Speaker 2: Take me as I am, uncle, and as the season is,

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and don't be cross? What else can I be when

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I live in a world of fools?

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Speaker 3: Christmas hooly? What Christmas time? To you?

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Speaker 2: Were a time for paying bills without money, time for

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finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer.

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If I could work my will, every idiot who goes

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about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled

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in his own bumpudding and buried with a stake of holly,

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who cover a long?

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Speaker 3: Uncle?

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Speaker 2: Can you not let down for once and enjoy your me?

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You keep Christmas in your own way, and me keep

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it in mind?

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Speaker 3: Yes, but you don't keep it aave me alone?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: Much good at me? Do you much good? Has it

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ever done you? Oh?

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of things, ancles, from which I've

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never profited. Christmas among the rests except that when it

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comes around, who could resist it? A kind of forgiving

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time of year, when men and women seem by one

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consent to open up their hearts freely. So then I say, Uncle,

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though it never put a scrap of silver or gold

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in my pocket, I believe it has and will do

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me good. And so I say, God, bless it?

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Speaker 3: Oh what'd her better?

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, mister Scrooge.

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Speaker 3: It says that it is.

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Speaker 4: A holiday, and and my hands were so cold to

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let me hear another word from you, bob crejit. And

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you keep your Christmas by losing your employment. Oh please, sir,

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I humbly beg your pardon. It was just an action

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on the spur of the moment cares to pry the

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spur to goad you into finishing your work, creget and

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let's hear no more from you, Yes, sir, well never you?

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Speaker 3: Why are you here to ask you to dine with

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us tomorrow? Dine? Will you? Never?

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Speaker 2: There's nothing more ridiculous than all the fuss and expense

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over Christmas dinner. Oh uncle, I want and ask nothing

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from your work. Can't really friends, Good afternoon with all

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my I'm sorry to find you who resolute at least

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I wish you were meddy Christmas, good afternoon and the

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happy afternoon, and be sure to make the front door fast,

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oh wasting a feat here and no extra logs on

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the fire, Yes, uncle, mister Cretchen, Yes, sir may I

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wish you were meddy Christmas and a happy here the

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first time I'm sure of, and I thank you and

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the other who knows what the future holds, be a

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good hope the nerve of all of them, My neew

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of westral and Bob crutches on fifteen shillings a week

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with a wife and family talking about a merry Christmas

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car set up to make a man retired to butlam.

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Speaker 3: You're all mad, mad.

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Speaker 4: Begging your pardon, mister Scrooge, a gentleman to see you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Scrooge and Marley's.

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Speaker 2: I believe have I the honor of addressing mister Scrooge

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or mister Marley. Mister Marley's been dead for seven years.

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He died seven years ago this very night. Ah sad, sad. Indeed,

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still I have no doubt his liberality is well represented

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by his surviving partner liberality. At this festive season, it

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is more than usually desirable that we all make some

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slight provision for the poor and destitute. You may make

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your pledge. Here are there no prisons? We speak of

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the needy, the union workhouses.

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Speaker 3: They're not still in operation.

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Speaker 2: They are I wish I could say they were not.

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A few of us private citizens are endeavoring to raise

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a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink

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and means of war. Now, what shall I put you

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down for a mister Scrooge.

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Speaker 3: Nothing. Of course, you wish to be none of us.

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Speaker 2: I wish to be left alone by tax I hope

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to support the establishments we have mentioned. They cost enough more.

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Let those who were badly off go there. Many can't

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go there, and many would rather die.

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Speaker 3: They would rather die.

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Speaker 2: And let them do so, and decrease the surplus population.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon. Sir, whatever your name is, I find you

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hard to believe, mister Scrooge.

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Speaker 2: Greet it, let him out, close the door, cratch it

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to extinguish what cold remain. Yes, sir, No, sir, he'll

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come here, coming, mister Scrooge, you'll want.

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Speaker 3: All day tomorrow's burns.

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Speaker 2: If quite convenience, it's not convenient, and it's not fair.

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If I wish to stop half a crown for it,

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you'd think yourself in used.

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Speaker 3: I'd be bound else. And yet you don't think me

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in use.

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Speaker 2: When I pay a day's wages for no work, I would.

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Speaker 4: Not pre ill to have an opinion. But then it

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is only one day a year, A.

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Speaker 3: Poor excuse for picking a man's pocket.

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Speaker 2: Of the twenty fifth of December, I have no choice.

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Speaker 3: You must have the whole day. Just make sure you

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are here earlier.

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Speaker 2: The following morning, I died my usual melancholy dinner in

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the usual melancholy towern Afterwards climbed the stairs to my

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living quarters. In the gloom, something about my door knockers

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stopped me as I was about to put key in lock.

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Speaker 3: For once strange moment.

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Speaker 2: It looked like molly ghostly spectacles turned upon its ghostly forehead.

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To say that I was not startled would not be

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strictly true. And even after I was entered and locked

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in and m candle it, I did pause irresolutely before

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I dismissed it with humble still it was uneasy trimming

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my candle. I walked through all my rooms to make

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sure all was well, sitting the room, bed room, lumber room,

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all as it should be, small fire in the grate,

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spoon and base, already a little saucepan of gruel since I.

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Speaker 3: Had a cold. What's that? The front door, the side door, the.

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Speaker 2: Bell by my bed, the one in the mantle and

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ann the sideboard?

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Speaker 3: What do they hero? Who wrings them? The cellar door?

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And that noise fall? I won't believe it.

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Speaker 2: I say it was humbug sail the grim respector what

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do you want with me?

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Speaker 3: Who are you?

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Speaker 2: Ask me who I was?

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Speaker 3: Who were you? Then?

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Speaker 2: Why I was no part Jacob Marley? You don't believe me,

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I don't why about four sentence? Because a little thing

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affects them, A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheese.

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Speaker 3: You may be a bit of fun.

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Speaker 2: Adjusted beef and brood of mustard, crumb of cheese, raymond

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and potato. There's more of gravy about you than the grave.

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Wherever you are, I'm gonna tell you, unbeliever, So I

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unrecked the bankerchief from above my head to reveal the

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rotting face. The troll fallen slightly to my breast.

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Speaker 3: The muscle has eaten long since my words. Now do

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you believe me for? And what I am? It's oh,

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mercy dread apparition. Why do you trouble me? I must?

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Why are you fettered? And bound and changed?

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Speaker 2: I where the train I faced in life?

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Speaker 3: I made it link by link.

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Speaker 2: I girded it on of my own free will.

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Speaker 3: It is patterned so strange to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you learn the way some length of the coil

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you wear yourself.

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Speaker 5: It was full and as heavy.

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Speaker 3: And as long as mine.

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Speaker 2: He's seven Christmas eves ago, and you have labored on

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it since hall once part life. What a ponderous say

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you have built to drag you down in death?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: No, Jacob, oh, Jacob Monty, speak some comfort to me.

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Speaker 3: I have none to give.

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Speaker 2: I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never

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walked beyond our counting house in life.

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Speaker 3: So in death.

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Speaker 2: We read journeys life before me seven years dead and

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traveling all the time, O rest, no peace, the incessant

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tats of remort.

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Speaker 3: I am here tonight.

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Speaker 2: Ebisa toward you, that you have yet a hope of

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escaping my favor. Oh, you are always a good friend thanke.

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You will be haunted by three speed.

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Speaker 3: That is the hope you mentioned. It is I think

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I'd rather not.

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Speaker 2: Without their visits. You have no hope but the sun

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and the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow when

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the bell tolds what?

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Speaker 3: But couldn't I take them all at once? It over?

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Speaker 2: Expect the second or the next night, at the same hour,

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the third, when the last stroke of twelve has ceased.

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Speaker 3: To vibrate on your battle clock.

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Speaker 2: And for your road's sake, remember what has passed between us.

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Pass between us. Take a bus, Do not leave me.

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Yet She was gone, as if he had never been,

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And yet he had been, and ever needs a Scrooge

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would never be the same man again. He fell asleep

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without undressing upon the instant, a sleep that was destined

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to be disturbed, as I shall relate when I returned

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with that two. When Scrooge awoke, it was dark, and

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the chimes of a neighborhood church were striking the four quarters.

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To his amazement, they were followed by twelve strokes of

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the bell. Twelve impossible, it was true? When he went

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to bed, Why it isn't possible? I could have slept

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through a whole day and far into another night. As

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I lay, I suddenly remembered that Molly had said a

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ghost would visit me at one?

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Speaker 3: Who are you?

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Speaker 5: I am the ghost of Christmas past?

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Speaker 3: Long past? You're past? Don't you recognize me?

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Speaker 2: A strange figure, almost like a child, the outlines dimly seen.

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It wore a tunic of purest whites and a branch

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of fresh green holly in his hand, in the singular

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contradiction to the dress, which was trimmed with summer flowers.

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But strangest of all, above its crown sprang a bright,

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clear jet of light which illuminated the darkest corner but

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obscured the face, and under its arm a cap which

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looked for all the world like a candle snuffer. For

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some reason, I wanted to put on its caper.

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Speaker 3: The light is blinding? Would you not put on your cap?

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Speaker 2: Would you so.

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Speaker 3: Soon put out?

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Speaker 5: With worldly hands the light I shed. Is it not

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enough that you are the one who fashioned me this

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cap and forced me to wear.

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Speaker 3: It low upon my rack?

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Speaker 2: Aye?

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Speaker 3: What business brings you here? Your welfare?

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Speaker 2: If you would regard my welfare, you would leave my

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sleep unwoken your reclamation.

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Speaker 5: Then take heed, rise and walk with me.

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Speaker 2: I cannot resist your command. But I am an old man,

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lightly clad and nursing a coal to boot.

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Speaker 3: Do not deny me.

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Speaker 2: Come follow me. All of a sudden I was flying,

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floating on air. Tonight had vanished as the city below me,

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and I was looking down on the country in a clear,

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old light of day, the snow dusting the ground. Good Heavens.

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I was bred in this place. I was a boy.

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Speaker 3: Here, your lettuce trembling? What is that up on your cheek? Nothing? Nothing?

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The wind makes my eyes water. Leave me where you will?

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Do you not remember the way?

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Speaker 2: Remember it? I could walk it blind food strange.

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Speaker 3: To have forgotten it. So many years have set our

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feet on the road.

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Speaker 2: I will not tell you most of where we wandered

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as time stood still or raced ahead a whim. The

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school where I was a child, the house I grew

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up in, an orphan a terrible rush of tears when

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them bring another outcast, a foreigner, an alien who, in

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our mutual loneliness I once befriended me. Poor Ali Baba,

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I I it's too right now.

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Speaker 3: Nothing. There was a boy seeing a Christmas carol.

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Speaker 2: At my door last night. I should like to have

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given him something.

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Speaker 3: That's her, what might have been?

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Speaker 5: Let us see another Christmas?

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Speaker 2: What's that Your aunt who brought you up passed away?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Oh, no, delicate creature whom a breath might of wicked.

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But she had a large heart. Amen to that. I

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will not gainsay its spirit. When she died she had

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I think children, one child kill your nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we traveled further, scenes flashing by like slides in

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a magic lantern. Old Fazzywig in his Welsh wig, my

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first employer.

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Speaker 3: His Christmas parties.

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Speaker 2: Were the groaning table and everyone dancing with a lightfoot

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and heart to the festive music, His kind wife, and

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the joy of working at a desk one wasn't nailed to.

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Speaker 3: And then someone I had shut away so long ago.

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Speaker 5: What is it, Scrooge, that girl whom you shall sit beside?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, this shadow most of all? Don't you remember?

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I told you the light blinds me.

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Speaker 5: Then remember me as I was before you put my

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light out.

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Speaker 3: No tears I beg you none.

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Speaker 5: If the idol who has replaced me can cheer and

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comfort you, I must not grieve what idle.

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Speaker 3: A golden one.

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Speaker 5: Nothing but gain engrosses you.

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Speaker 3: So if I have grown wiser, I am not changed

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toward you.

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Speaker 5: Our marriage contract was made when we were both poor.

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Speaker 3: You are changed. When it was made. You were another man.

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I was a boy.

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Speaker 5: Whatever you were, I freely offer you your release.

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Speaker 3: Have I ever sought it in words? Never?

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Speaker 5: How then in a changed nature, in everything that made

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my love of any worth or value in your sight?

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And so I release you with a full heart for

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the mother what once you were. May you be happy

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in the life you've chosen.

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Speaker 2: No, I recognize your spirits and why you've come back

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to haunt me, torture me no more.

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Speaker 3: Some shadows still to see. No I I can bear it.

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No longer haunts me. No longer.

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Speaker 2: The light you shine is too bright for my eyes

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to bear. You give me your cap so I may

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extinguish it and you in a puff of smoke. The

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figure was gone, and I had barely time to rail

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to my bed, exhausted from the long night's travels, where

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I fell into a heavy sleep.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 2: The clock taking away? Awake in the night of time?

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Almost one? When the second messenger Molly sends me from

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the grave will arrive. What ghastly shape might he take?

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What hideous form? What torture might this one plan for me?

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Speaker 3: At least? I am prepared for anything, well prepared for anything,

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But but nothing? Hello there, Spirit, are you invisible to me? Uh?

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Speaker 2: I said, had great lights from beneath my sitting room

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the door. Uh, he is a fearful waste of light,

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a shocking extravagance. I'm just going to douse these candles.

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I I'm afraid to answer.

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Speaker 3: ODG, have any house gruge stops? I'll take it. I

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your bedroom now and on n and uh. Why here's

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a prodigal spending of light in a great roaring blaze,

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hard enough to set the chimney flu on fire. Look

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well on me. Have you ever seen the like of

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me before? Never?

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Speaker 2: This time your eyes were opened to this another thing? Spirit,

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I will be no trouble. Conduct me where you will.

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I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learned

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a lesson which is working now tonight. If you have

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ought to teach me, let me profit by it.

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Speaker 3: Hold fast tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: In the brink of an eye, we were transported to

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a mean and shabby little house, threadbare but clean as

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a new water shirt and ridul until the mouth watering

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smelled goose basking and sage and onion, and a roama

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is an eating house and pastry cooks next together, which

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came from the Christmas pudding?

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Speaker 6: Who Hena has got your precious father then? And your

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brother tiny Tim I never remember him, Martha, as late

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as this on Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Dear, what a place is this? House of your clock love? Cratchit?

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See here he comes now, said child.

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Speaker 2: He carries on his shoulder with a little crutch in

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his hand, and his lower limbs bound in an iron cage.

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Speaker 3: The youngest of the creche.

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Speaker 2: Him Why look at him struggle after the others as

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his father sits him down?

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Speaker 3: Where are they off to watch?

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Speaker 2: One of the merrier sights of this merrier some seasons

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the golden goose turn on the spit.

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Speaker 6: Listen, how leat you are, my dear, and how cold

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will come?

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Speaker 3: Come?

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Speaker 6: Sit you down by the fire and of a warm love.

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Speaker 4: Blessy after I've had a look at that goose too. First,

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tell me how did tiny Tim the heat through the

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service as good as gold and batter? From how he

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gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much and thinks the

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strangest things.

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Speaker 3: You ever heard? And now what was it this tiny

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he told me coming home?

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Speaker 4: He hoped everyone in the church saw him because he

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was a cripple. Oh, because it might be pleasant to

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them to remember upon Christmas Day who it was made

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blame Begger's walk and blind and see it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, if he's so much fun? No, no, no, no,

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you must not, my dear, remember the day. Come, let's

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join the others. Tell me, Spirit, will tiny Tim live?

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Speaker 2: I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner

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and a little crutch without an owner. If these shadows

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remain unordered by the future.

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Speaker 3: The child will die.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no, kind Spirit, spare him that from you.

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Speaker 3: Recall your own words.

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Speaker 2: If he'd be like to die, he had better do

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it and decrease the surplus population.

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Speaker 3: I am machine and should be man. If you'll be man.

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Speaker 2: At heart forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered

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what the surpose is and where it is listen a

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toast before we eat to mister Scrooge. To me, I'll

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give you, mister Scrooge, the founder of the feast, the

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founder of.

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Speaker 6: The feat Indeed, oh I wish I had him here.

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I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon.

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And I hope you have a good appetite for it.

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Speaker 4: Oh, my dear the children Christmas day, Well, I've been to.

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Speaker 6: His health for your sake in the days, not for

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his long life. To him, a merry Christmas and a

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happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: Oh you'll be very merry. I'm very happy.

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Speaker 4: I've no doubt, and a merry Christmas to us, all,

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my DearS. God bless us, God bless us.

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Speaker 2: Every one of name, my very name, cast a pall

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upon their happiness. But mark you on the wealth of

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spirit among them, which thought kindly on a man.

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Speaker 3: With as little spirit as yours.

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Speaker 2: In particular that poor little lad tiny Kim. Did you

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notice how generous he was to end the toast with

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God bless us everyone, including even me, What a valiant

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little soul in spite of all his handicaps.

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Speaker 3: Half your eyes are opening at last.

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Speaker 2: But come, we are mortal, and where now your nephew's house,

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he said, he said that Christmas was a humbug, as

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I really believed it, to.

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Speaker 3: My shame for him. Fred does my uncle and loss

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of speak. So where is a comical old fellow? And

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not so pleasant he might be. However, his offenses carry.

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Speaker 2: Their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him,

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and I will have no downturn bouves at this season.

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So here's a glass of muld wine to our hands.

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Speaker 3: Let's drink to the old man.

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Speaker 6: Well, he has given us plenty of metament of pat

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So to.

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Speaker 2: Uncle Screw, a merry Christmas and a happy New Year

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to the old man. Whatever he is, he wouldn't take

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it from me, but may he have it nevertheless to

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Uncle Screw, to Uncle Screw, no, no, no wait wait,

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let me go to them.

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Speaker 3: May explain too late for me. We all grows too late. Away.

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Speaker 2: Where stand we now? This open place, a crossroads where

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I must leave you and forgive me what I ask

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When I see something strange.

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Speaker 3: Pro fooding from the skirt of.

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Speaker 2: Your robe might be a claw for all the flesh

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there is upon it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then see what you must.

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Speaker 2: See from the sanctuary. Came forth a boy and a girl, yellow, meager, ragged, scowling, wolfish,

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the frustrate tune, the humility. I started back a pole, spirit,

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are these yours?

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Speaker 3: They are mans?

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Speaker 2: The boy is ignorance, the girl is want aware of them.

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Speaker 3: Both and all of their degree.

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Speaker 2: But most of all, beware this boy, for on his

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brow I see written doom. Unless the writing can be erased,

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my time is sounding. Wait, have these pitiful creatures no

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refuge or resource? I answer in your own words? Are

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there no prisons? Are there no what houses?

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Speaker 3: Old? For one moment? Help me? Where should I turn?

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Nan pay your future? The black phantom that approaches you?

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, your future?

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Speaker 3: Your future.

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Speaker 2: As the last stroke of the bell struck twelve, Scrooge

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turned to face a dread figure, a solemn phantom, draped

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and put it in blacks and deep grays, coming creeping

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like the mist about it towards him. I'll return with

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Act three. There the last phantom, silent, slowly, gravely approached.

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It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed

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its head, its face, its.

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Speaker 3: Form, and left nothing.

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Speaker 2: Of its visible say one outstretched hand, which served as

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its only voice. For the spirit neither spoke nor moved.

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I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas.

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Yet to come your answer, not but point where we

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are to go? Laid on spirit, and I will follow.

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The great black cloud gathered me and carried me willy

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nilly to the streets, its shroud like the figure that

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stood by me, not about me, as I.

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Speaker 3: Listened to two gentlemen talking in the street.

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Speaker 2: So, mister rhyme, this old scratch has got his own at.

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Speaker 4: Last, I have been so informed, mister goodfellow.

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Speaker 3: When did he die last night? Aly? What on earth

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could he have caught?

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Speaker 2: I thought it?

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Speaker 3: Never die?

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Speaker 2: God knows?

473
00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:16,599
Speaker 3: Why should I care? What has he done with his money?

474
00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:19,799
Speaker 2: Heaven knows? Not left to charity, Its only not to me.

475
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 3: Left to his company.

476
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: Perhaps God knows.

477
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,599
Speaker 2: He appears not to have had any sort of personal tie,

478
00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:30,119
by which token it's like to be of a cheap

479
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,680
funeral for upon my life I cannot think of anybody

480
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:43,640
to go to it. How tis more and awful to

481
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,480
dismiss another human being in such terms.

482
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:49,519
Speaker 3: Will give me dread.

483
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:53,839
Speaker 2: Ghost, I did not mean to diverge. You wish to

484
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,319
reveal something to me.

485
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 3: You have my full.

486
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:07,759
Speaker 6: Attention, said The news is bad, bad, we are quite ruined.

487
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,000
Oh there's hope for us yet, if you're a LNGS. Yeah,

488
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:14,279
if he forgive is awful. Gay there might have been,

489
00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:17,000
but it is too late for the miracle.

490
00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: Poor old miserable boy, he's past relenting, he's dead.

491
00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 3: No, who waits for it? Wait? I'm not ready to leave.

492
00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:34,720
What else would you have me look on?

493
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 6: Tell me again about today, about the good him on

494
00:32:42,079 --> 00:32:42,480
the grave?

495
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,319
Speaker 4: It would have done you good to see how green

496
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,160
a place it is.

497
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:50,039
Speaker 3: But you'll see it often, I promised him. I would

498
00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:50,799
walk there.

499
00:32:50,599 --> 00:32:57,319
Speaker 4: Every other Sunday, My last born, poor little broken chocolate up?

500
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,799
Speaker 3: Please I should break down with you, Oh my darling.

501
00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:05,799
Speaker 4: We can all try to be brave, but how can

502
00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:10,799
we hide our sorrow? What is more final and dreadful

503
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:11,880
than death?

504
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:18,759
Speaker 2: I want to help specter, but something informs me that

505
00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:20,839
our parting moment is at hand.

506
00:33:21,279 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 3: Tell me what man was it? I saw? Lying? Dead?

507
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:29,359
Very well?

508
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: Viewpoint? Where to this time? A churchyard?

509
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:38,279
Speaker 3: And here we are.

510
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,279
Speaker 2: The headstone? She would have me read it. But tell

511
00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:48,200
me are these the shadows of things.

512
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:48,599
Speaker 3: That will be?

513
00:33:49,799 --> 00:34:00,119
Speaker 2: Or maybe only? Oh my own name Evaniza Scrooge.

514
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:01,279
Speaker 3: O spirit hear me?

515
00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:04,119
Speaker 2: I am not the man I was. I will not

516
00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:06,799
be the man I must have been from all this intercourse?

517
00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 3: Why show me this?

518
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:14,639
Speaker 2: If I am past all hope for once you make

519
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,440
no motion, your nature intercedes for me and pities me.

520
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,840
Good spirit, I will honor Christmas in my heart and

521
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,199
try to keep it all the year. The three spirits

522
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,920
shall strive within me. I will not shut out the

523
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:30,159
lessons that they teach.

524
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 3: Oh tell me.

525
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: I may sponge away the writing on the stone. Give

526
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,840
me your hand, You give me your hand.

527
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 3: I hold you to me. You cannot disappear. You cannot disappear.

528
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 2: You will who woll bless my soul? What I cling

529
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:55,800
to is my own bedpost and wait, wait, Perhaps my

530
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,159
time is my own to make amends in Yes, I

531
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,599
will live in the past, in the present, and the future.

532
00:35:03,079 --> 00:35:04,639
Speaker 3: The spirits of all three.

533
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,159
Speaker 2: Shall strive within me. Old Jacob, Molly, Heaven and Christmas.

534
00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:12,159
Time be praised for this. I say it on my knees,

535
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,920
Old Jacob, on my knees.

536
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 3: I don't know what's to do.

537
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,199
Speaker 2: I'm as light as a feather, and I am as

538
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:23,199
happy as an angel. I'm as merry as a schoolboy, I'm.

539
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 3: As giddy as a drunken man.

540
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: A Merry Christmas to everyone, A happy New Year to

541
00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:33,679
all the world. Hell, oh hello, there's the saucepan that

542
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,079
rules in there's the door by which the ghost of

543
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:38,880
Jacob Molly, And there's the corner where I saw the

544
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,360
wandering spirits. It's all right, it's true, it all happened.

545
00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:47,280
Oh I don't know among the spirits.

546
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 3: I'm a baby. I don't know what month is.

547
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 2: Throw open the window and rejoin the world. Eh, mister Rhymes,

548
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,559
what's today?

549
00:35:57,119 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: Why? Uh? Christmas Day?

550
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 5: Christmas Day?

551
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: I haven't missed it.

552
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 2: If the spirits had done it all in one night,

553
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,440
they can do what they like, of course they can.

554
00:36:08,639 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 3: Hello, my fine.

555
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 2: Fellow, Hello, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you. Do you

556
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,199
still run the Poulterer's shop in the next street for

557
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,199
one at the corner? And I should hope I did

558
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:27,039
on my way to open up. Oh pray then, mister Grimes,

559
00:36:27,079 --> 00:36:29,400
do I dare hope you have not yet sold the

560
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,760
prize turkey that was hanging up there, Not the little

561
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,000
prize turkey.

562
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,639
Speaker 3: The big prize turkey, Ah, the.

563
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: One as big as an ospirt toward delightful man, A

564
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,440
pleasure to talk to him. Yes, mister grime.

565
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,679
Speaker 3: It is hanging there.

566
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: Now what are we waiting for? I want to buy

567
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,920
it breed here that I may give directions where to

568
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,280
take it. Send back your boy and I'll give him

569
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,760
a shilling. Have him bring it back and rest than

570
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,400
five minutes, and I'll give him half a pound. Better still,

571
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,639
here's a five pound note. Send him to deliver the

572
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:04,599
turkey to mister crackit by cad at the address I

573
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:06,199
give you, and what's left.

574
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,679
Speaker 3: Shall be your Christmas present. And his.

575
00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 2: Shaving was not an easy task, for my hand was

576
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,440
shaking and shaving the man's attention. At last it was finished,

577
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:22,519
and I dressed myself and all my best and issued

578
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,760
forth to the streets. The first person I met was

579
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,480
a portly gentleman who had walked into my counting house

580
00:37:28,559 --> 00:37:31,519
the day before, saying Scrooge and Marley's.

581
00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 3: I believe I hasten to intercept him. My dear sir,

582
00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:36,840
how do you do?

583
00:37:37,199 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 4: Do?

584
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,639
Speaker 2: I beg your pardon? I hope you succeeded yesterday. A

585
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,760
merry Christmas to you, sir, mister Scrooge, that is my name.

586
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,800
I fear not pleasant to you. Allow me to ask

587
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,280
your pardon, and will you have the goodness to allow

588
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,639
me to contribute?

589
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:04,159
Speaker 3: May I have your ear sirtain Lord, bless me so much?

590
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,639
My dear mister Scrooge. Are you really serious? If you please?

591
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,599
Not a farthing less? Will you do me that favor? Oh,

592
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:17,320
my dear sir, I don't know what to say. We

593
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,880
don't say anything. Come and see me, Will you come

594
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:22,400
and see me?

595
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 2: I will indeed thank you. I thank you fifty times.

596
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 3: Bless you? Marry Christmas?

597
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 2: I buy all that's holy?

598
00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:43,079
Speaker 3: Is it you? Uncle me? Fred?

599
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 2: You did ask me to dinner? Am I too late

600
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,079
to take up the invitation?

601
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 3: Too late? Will you let me? Will I let you in? Why?

602
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 2: Here's the merriest turner Christmas can take, darling wife, here's

603
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,800
Uncle Scrooge to share our Christmas?

604
00:38:58,920 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 3: Isn't at a present for this?

605
00:39:00,559 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 6: You couldn't have brought Fred a better one.

606
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,119
Speaker 3: Welcome to our.

607
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,079
Speaker 2: Home, alcome for only the first of many times. I

608
00:39:09,119 --> 00:39:13,360
hope it's a whole new year. Yes, and you may

609
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,360
spend it all with us, if you will, only today,

610
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,239
for I must be in the office as early as

611
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,840
can be. No, no, no, no, don't steal glances at

612
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,199
each other. It isn't business on my mind, but recompense.

613
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Since at last I have learned to laugh, I want

614
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,559
to have my first joke with the man I have

615
00:39:33,639 --> 00:39:38,440
perhaps wronged most all of these years, my faithful Bob Cratchitt,

616
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,519
A wonderful day, an evening with my nephew, a deep

617
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,239
sleep that might have lasted for days, except that I

618
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,239
was bound and determined to be earlier than my clerk

619
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,960
at the country house that Monday morning. I was as

620
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,480
pleased as a child when I beat him there, even

621
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:03,480
more please to find that, for once he was late.

622
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:06,480
When the door opened and he came in, he was

623
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,840
a full eighteen and one half minutes behind his time.

624
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,559
His hat and stick out were off before he opened

625
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,360
the door. In terror of the man I had been.

626
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,559
He was on his stool in a jiffy, writing his pain,

627
00:40:18,639 --> 00:40:21,719
as if he were trying to overtake the last minute. Morning,

628
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,599
mister Scrooge, morning late for that?

629
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,519
Speaker 3: What do you mean by coming here this time of day?

630
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 4: I am very sorry, sir, I am behind time you are.

631
00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 3: I think you are now Step this way, sir, if

632
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:35,360
you please.

633
00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 4: It's only once a year, sir. It shall not be repeated.

634
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,840
I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.

635
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, my friend, I'm not going to

636
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,639
stand with this sort of thing any longer, and therefore

637
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:55,280
I feel myself forced to raise your salary. Huh hi

638
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,559
by mister Scrooge. Sir, do you feel all right on

639
00:41:00,599 --> 00:41:02,039
my merry Christmas?

640
00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 3: Bob?

641
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: A merrier Christmas than I have given you for many

642
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,280
a year. Not only raise your salary, but discuss your

643
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,320
affairs and endeavor to help your struggling family over a

644
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,760
Christmas bowl or smoking bishop. So make up the fires

645
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,000
till they haunt us right out of the country house

646
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,360
before you got another eye, Bob Cretchitt. It's not only

647
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:30,280
a new year, but a whole new world for both

648
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:43,199
of us. As we all know, Scrooge was better than

649
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:47,159
his word. He did it all, and to Tiny Tim,

650
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,000
who did not die, he was a second father, and

651
00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:54,039
he made a good new will for his nephew and

652
00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:59,000
his future partner, Bob Kretchitt. One thing after a long life,

653
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,559
he took to his grave that he knew how to

654
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,960
keep Christmas well. May it be truly said of all

655
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:24,400
of us, And as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us everyone.

656
00:42:25,599 --> 00:42:29,000
What more is there to say after Dickens Christmas Carol,

657
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:34,920
except the eternal message, it brings a merry Christmas.

658
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 3: And a happy New Year.

659
00:42:38,039 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 2: Our cast included Marion Seldi's, Ian Martin E. V. Jester,

660
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:46,480
Robert Dryden, and William Redfield. The entire production was under

661
00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:48,400
the direction of Hymond brown.

662
00:42:50,559 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 3: Well. A preview of our next tale. Okay, listen, hear

663
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:05,719
that singing. Of course, it's a cattle concert. That's where

664
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:06,519
everyone must be.

665
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:17,559
Speaker 7: Oh, come on, let's see if we can find them.

666
00:43:18,039 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 3: I give up. I don't know where that music is

667
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:21,440
coming from.

668
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 5: We've covered so many streets and nothing.

669
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, no one. Oh hey, honey, you're shivering. I'm scared.

670
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 7: Well, there's no hotel across the street. Let's go there

671
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,119
and use the phone. There's got to be one there.

672
00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 3: This is a ghost town. There's no use wandering about anymore.

673
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,559
Speaker 5: It's a ghost town in the middle of Ohio.

674
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 3: This is E. G.

675
00:43:44,639 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

676
00:43:48,119 --> 00:43:57,119
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams,