Stave 1

• Marley was dead, to begin with
• Covetous old sinner
• Hard and sharp as flint
• Solitary as an oyster
• Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal
• What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough
• Open there shut up hearts freely
• The poor law are in full vigour then
• If they rather die … they had better do it
• Decrease the surplus population
• A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty fifth of december
• Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it
• It was made … of cash boxes, keys, padlocks
• Condemned to do so after death
• I wear the chain I forged in life
• A chance and hope of escaping my fate