stave 1

• "scrooge never painted out old Marleys name"
• "old sinner"
• "solitary as an oyster"
• "darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it"
• "what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough!"-scrooge
• "if I could work my will every idiot who goes about with 'merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through is heart"-scrooge
• "I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry"-scrooge
• "if they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"-scrooge
• "a poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every twenty fifth of December!"-scrooge
• "hard and sharp as flint'
• "in a dismal little cell"
• "I wear the chains I forged in life"-marley
• "mankind was my business"-marley
• "you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation"-scrooge
• "I don't make myself merry at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry"-scrooge
• "scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror"
• "not a knocker but marleys face"
• "darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it"
• "but soon it rang out loudly and so did every other bell in the house"
• "you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate"-marley
• "external heat and cold had little influence on scrooge"
• "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"-fred
• "merry Christmas uncle! God save you!"-fred
• "meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened"
• "you may be...a fragment of an underdone potato"-scrooge
• "it was made of...cash boxes, keys, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel"-marleys chain
• "gruel"-what scrooge eats