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a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! What's Out upon [?????? ???y] Merry Christmas! What’s Christmas Time to you but a
time for paying bills you haven't [by] without money; [?????? for?] a time for finding yourself
a year older and not an hour [wiser?] richer; a time for balancing [???????????? the? ?????] [??? ??????]
[???? ??? ??? ????] your [????] books [??? ????] and finding having every item in ?? ’em through a round dozen of
months, presented dead against you? If I had my could work my will,” said Scrooge,
[??turning ?? his?????] indignantly, “every [such?] idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be
boiled with his own pudding, [He should!] and ????? buried with a stake of
holly through his heart heart. He should!” I'm sick of Christmas.

“Uncle!” pleaded the nephew.

“Nephew!”—returned the uncle, sternly. “????? your Keep Christmas in your
own way, and [????????????????] me keep it in mine much good may it do you let me ???? keep it in
mine. Much good may it do you! Much good has it ever done you! ??? [And]
Good day!" ?? [New para symbol?] “Keep it!” said the nephewrepeated Scrooge’s nephew. “But you don’t
keep it.”

“Let me leave it alone then,” said Scrooge. “Much good may it
do you! [??] Much good it has ever done you! [Bah! Good day!]”

“There are many things by things [reasons] from which I might have derived good, by
which I have not profited, [I dare say] [no doubt?] I dare say", returned the nephew. “Christmas
among the rest. But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas Time,
when it has come round apart from its ????? name and origin — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that— as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable,
pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when
people men and women seem by one consent seem to open their shut-up hearts, freely, a|n|d [two horizontal lines added here]
to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the
grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. Therefore And therefore
uncle, though it may has never have put a scrap of gold or [silver] silver in my pocket,
I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say
God bless it!”

The clerk in the tank, involuntarily applauded. Becoming im-
mediately sensible of [his ????] the impropriety, he ?????ed [stopped? ???? ????] poked the fire, and [poked] extinguished the last
frail spark ??? of flame in the grate for ever.

“Let me hear another sound from you!” said Scrooge, “and you’ll
keep your Christmas by losing your situation. You’re quite a powerful
speaker sir,” he added, turning [????] to his nephew. “[You should] I wonder you don’t go into Par-
liament.”

“My [matter?] would be [new] there Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”

Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed indeed he did. He he went the
whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that
extremity first.