Stave 5

• 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy'
• 'He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city new'
• 'I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family'
• '"I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!" whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh'
• 'Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!'
• 'So glowing with his good intentions'
• 'A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"
• 'A splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long line of brilliant laughs!'
• 'Clash clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash!'
• 'An intelligent boy!" (...) "A remarkable boy!'
• 'The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle (...) and the chuckle (...) and the chuckle (...) by the chuckle (...) and chuckled till he cried'
• 'If he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking-plaster over it, and been quite satisfied'
• 'Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you'
• 'Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!'
• 'Calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat'
• 'And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father'