Stave 1

• “Hard and sharp as flint”
• “As solitary as an oyster”
• “The external heat and cold had little influence”
• “What reason do you have to be merry? you're poor enough”- Scrooge to fred
• “He was all in a glow”- describing fred
• “every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”- scrooge
• “Are there no prisons?”-scrooge
• “If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”- Scrooge
• ”I wear the chain I forged in life”- Marley
• “Mankind was my business.”- marley