Stave 3

• He obeyed
• jolly Giant
• Scrooge entered timidly and hung his head before this Spirit
• ‘free’ ‘sparkling’ ‘open
• Conduct me where you will
• Let me profit by it
• ‘pears’ ‘oranges’ ‘lemons’ ‘plums’ ‘figs’
• your precious father
• (Bob talking about TT) ‘he hoped the people would see him in the church because he was a cripple
• Bob’s voice was tremulous… and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty
• God bless us everyone
• Tell me if Tiny Tim will live… Oh no kind Spirit! Say he will be spared.
• (Spirit to Scrooge) ‘If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’
• ‘you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
• Founder of the Feast!
• Scrooge was the ogre of the family
• They were not a handsome family…but they were happy
• (Miners & XMAS spirit) ‘the bowels of the earth … but they know me
• Every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought
• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour
• Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always
• I mean to give him the same chance every year … for I pity him
• He softened more and more
• ‘If he could have listened to it … years ago, he might have cultivated … his own happiness with his own hands.
• begged like a boy to be allowed to stay
• (I&W) ‘wretched, abject, frightful, miserable
• Scrooge started back, appalled
• Spirit! Are they yours?... They are Man’s And they cling to me
• Beware them both… But most of all, beware this boy
• Have they no refuge or resource?’ ‘Are there no prisons?... Are there no workhouses?
• there are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us and do their deeds of passion, pride, envy, ill-will, bigotry and selfishness in our name.
• as good as gold- bob about tiny tim
• it should be christmas day on which one drinks to such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as mr scrooge
• for it is good to be children somtimes
• tonight at midnight, the time is drawing near!
• where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked