The Christmas Books: And Reprinted Pieces

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J. B. Alden, 1883 - 840 sivua
 

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Sivu 46 - and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
Sivu 47 - Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows!
Sivu 46 - There's father coming,' cried the two young Cratchits, who were everywhere at once. 'Hide, Martha, hide ! ' So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame ! 'Why, where's our Martha?' cried Bob Cratchit, looking...
Sivu 10 - ... as a good time ; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time ; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellowtravellers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Sivu 77 - Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and, knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him.
Sivu 7 - Marley was as dead as a door-naiL Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years.
Sivu 47 - ... gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah ! There never was such a goose.
Sivu 10 - ... em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas...
Sivu 49 - I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast ! " " The Founder of the Feast indeed ! " cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. " 1 wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.
Sivu 47 - Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the...

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