Christmas carol

• Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.


  Narrator says this about Scrooge
• If they had rather die...they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.


  Scrooge says this to the charity men about 'the poor
• Mankind was my business.


  Marley's ghost to Scrooge
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.


  Spirit of Christmas Past speaking to Scrooge about Scrooge's former self (as a boy)
• A small matter...to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.


  Spirit of Christmas Past speaking to Scrooge about Fezziwig and his party guests
• I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.


  Belle to Scrooge's former self (as a young man)
• Quite alone in the world...

  Belle's husband to Belle about Scrooge's former self (from five years ago)
• He hoped the people saw him in 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.

  Bob Cratchit to Mrs. Cratchit about Tiny Tim
• If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.


  Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge about Tiny Tim
• Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

  Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge
• His offences carry their own punishment.


  Fred to Scrooge's niece and guests about Scrooge
• This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both...

  Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge about the children under his robe
• He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!


  Charwoman to Old Joe about future (dead) Scrooge
• The only emotion that the Ghost could sho him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.


  Narrator speaking of future Scrooge's death
• Bob told them of the extraordinary kindness of Mr. Scrooge's nephew...

  Narrator speaking of Fred's condoling future Cratchit on Tiny Tim's death
• I am not the man I was.


  Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.


  Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• Scrooge was better than his word.


  Narrator about Scrooge's promises to honour Christmas and to help Bob's family
• to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.


  Narrator, about Scrooge
• And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well...

  Narrator, about Scrooge