The Huron Expositor, 1896-12-25, Page 6•
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VETERINARY.
OHN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario
Veterinsey College. All dries of Domestic
treated- Gals promptly attended to and
c harem moderate. Vete vinery Dentistry s specialty
Office and residenoe on Goderich Week one door
am of Dr. Scott"! office, Sestorth. 1112tf
G. Ha GIBS,
Vsterinasy Surgeon and Dentist, Toronto College of
veterinary deans* Boner Graduate of Ontario Vet
winery College, Honor memberof Ontario Neterin-
Airy Medical Society. All disease, of domestic animals
skilfully treated. Ail calls prOMPUY attended SO
dey or night. Dentistry and Surgery a specialty.
Moe road Dpenear—Dr. Campbell's old offioe,
ifas street Seaforth. Night calls answered hom the
'office. 1406-62
LEGAL
G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron, Holt &
. Cameron, Barrister am:1.30103er, Goderioh,
Ontario. Office—Hamilton street, opposite Colborne
e
- Rotel.
TAMES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mol-
t/ eon's Bank, Clinton. Office — Elliott leek,
Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage.
1461
S. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor fer the Dominion
lank. Offtee---Cardeo's black, Main StreetoSeeforth.
doney to loan. 1285
T M. BEST,Berzister'Solicitor, Notary, dee.
• Oftlee—Rooms, five doors north °tem:lamer:A
Rotel, ground floor, next door to G. L. Papsts
lewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderioh
ante—Cameron, Holt and Cameron. 1215
pARROW & PROUDFOOT, Banisten, SigicIton,
eke. (Wallah, Ontario. J. T. 01-11n0W. Q. 0.;
Psounreer. 666
' OAAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristers
Holton in Mammy, ho.Gode$ob, Ont
*IRON, Q. C., Paw Hour, Duns: Holmes
HOLMF,STED, succestor to the 'etc firm of
e moCaughey & Hohnested, Barrister, Solicitor
Conveyancer, and Notary. Solicitor for the Can
adia.n Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm
for sale. Office in Seott's Block, Main Street
%startle °
DENTISTRY.
-ciw TWEDDLE, Dentist. Office—Over Richard-
eson re MoInnie' shoe store, corner Main and
lobs streete, Seaforth.
1.1
nit. BELDEN, dentist ; crowning, bridge work
tuid gold plate work. Specie' attention given
to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work
'irefully performed. Office—over Johnson Bros.'
tiardware store, Seaforth. 1451
'FIR. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College
of Dental Surgeons, Ontario, D. I). S., of To-
ronto University. Office, Merket Block, Mitchell,
Ontario.' 1402
pi AGNEW, Denali*, Clinton, 'will
111!_pie, visit Hensel'. at Hodgens' Hotel
every Monday, and at Zurich the
second Thursday in mon month 1288
TT KINSMAN, Dentiet, L. D S.,
I-1 . Exeter, Ont. WM be M Zurich
e at the Huron Hotel, minx on tile
t
0.e.IASI. THIIESDkI In 01141 month, and
•••„
Murdoceds Hotel, Hensel!, on the mass FRIDAY
a ' eaoh month. Teeth extracted with the least
oia poodble. All work findealme at liberal rites
efl
MEDICAL.
Dr. John McGinnis,
Hon. °ratline° London Western University, member
at Ontario College of physicians and Surgeons.
Office and Residence—Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm.
Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Chnrch
gar Night calls attended promptly. 1453x12
T1R. ARMSTRONG-, M. B., Toronto, M. D. C. M.,
Ly Victoria, M. C. P. S., Ontario, successor to Dr.
Elliott, office lately occupied by Dr. Mott, Brace -
el d, Oetario.
It E. CCiOPER, lit. D. M. B. L. F. P.
Glasgow, &c., Phyloien, 'Surgeon and Ao
eoucher, Constance, Ont. 1121
A OhlitiTIVIAS CAROL,.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
117:•••••••••
- STAVE ONE.
1.---.--
MARLEY'S GHOST.
Marley was dead to begin with. There is
no doubt whatever about that. The reghg•
ter of his burial was signed by the clergy.
man, the clerk, the undertaker, i and the
chief nufurner. Scrooge signed it. And
Scrooge's name was good upon ?Change, for
anything he chose to put his hand to.
Old- Marley was as dead as a door -nail.
Migd ! I don't mean to say that I know,
of met own knowledge, what there is par-
• ticularly dead about a door -nail. I might
have been inclined, myself, . to regard a
coffin -nail as the deadest' piece of ironmong-
ery in the trade. But the wisdom of our
ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallow- •
ed hands shall not disturb it, or the Coun-
try's done for. 1.4on will therefore , permit
me to repeat, einpbelically, that Marley
was as dead as a door -nail.
Scrooge knewlie was dead? Of course
he did. How could it be otherwise ?
Scrooge and he V?ere partners for I don't
know how many y.ears. Scrooge was his
sole executor, his sole administrator, his -
sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his
sole friend, and wile mourner. And even
Scrooge was not sodreadfully out up by the
sad event, but that he was an excellent
man of business on. the very day of the
funeral, and solemnized it with an undoubt-
ed bargain.
The mention of Marley's funeral brings
me back to the point I started from. There.
is no doubt that Marley was dead. This
must be distinctly understood, or nothing
wonderful can come from the story I -am
going to relate. If we were not perfectly
convinced that Hamlet's Father died before
the play began, there wind& be nothing
mere remarkable in his taking a stroll at
night, in an easterly wind, upon his own •
ramparts, than there would be in any
other middle-aged gentleman ranhly turning
out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint
Paul's Churchyard for in.stance—dliterally to
astonish his son's weak mind.
Scrooge never painted out old Marley's
name. There it stood, years afterwards,
above the warehouse door: Scrooge and
Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge
and Marley. Sometimes people new to the
business called Scrooge Scrooge, and some-
times Marley, but he answered to both
names. It was all the same to him.
Oh 1 But he was a tight-fisted hand at
the grinditone, Scrooge! a squeezing,
wrenching; grasping, scraping, clutching,
covetous; old sinner 1 Hard and sharp as
flint, from which no steel had ever struck
out generous fire; secret, and self-contain-
ed, and solitary as an oyster. The cold
within him froze his old features, nipped his
pointed nose,. shrivelled his cheek, stiffened,
his gait '• made his eyes red, his thin lips
bine ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating
voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and
on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his
wiry chin.- He carried hie own low temper-
ature always about with him ; he iced his
office in the dog-daysi; and didn't thaw it
tin
one degree'at Christ as.
External heat and ld had little influence
on Scrooge. No war th could warm, no
wintry weather chill him. No wind that
blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow
was more intent -upon its purpose, no pelt-
ing rain less open, to entreaty. Foul
weather didn't know where to have him.
The heaviest ram, and snow, and hail, and
sleet, -could boast of the advantage over him
in only -one respect. They often it came
down handsomely, and Scrooge never
did.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to*
say, with gladsome looks, "My dear
Scrooge, how are you? When will you
come to see me ?" No beggars implored him
to bestow a trifle, no children asked him
rwhat it was o'clock, no:man or woman ever
once in all his life inquired the way to such
and such a place, of Scrooge. Even' the
blind. men's dogs appeared to know him;
and when they Saw him coming on, would
tug their owners into doorways and up
courts; and then would wag their tails as
though they said, "No eye at all is better
than an evil eye'dark master l'i
But what did Scrooge care 1 It was the
very thing he liked. To edge his way along
the crowded paths of life, warning all
human sympathy to keep its distance, *as
what the knowing ones call " nuts" to
Scrooge. '
Once upon a time—of all the good days in -
the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge
sat busy in his counting -house. It was cold,
bleak, biting weather : foggy withal : and
he could hear the people in the 'court out-
side, go wheezing up and down, beating
their hands upon their breasts, and stamp -
their feet upon the pavement stones to warm
theme The city clocks had only just gone
three, but it was (pito dark already—it had
not been light all day—and candles were
flaring in the windows of the neighboring
offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable'
brown air. The fog 'came pouring in at
every chink and keyhole, and was so dense
without, that although the court - was of
the narrowest, the houses opposite were
mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud
come drooping clown, obscuring everything,
one might have thought that Nature lived
hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
A LEX. BETHUNE, If. D., renew of the Royal
College of Physioians and Surgeons, Kingston.
ihatioessor to Dr. Maeltid. Oftlee letely occupied
oy Dr. Mackid, Malt Street Seaforth. Resident*
--Comer of Viatorts Square, in house lately occupied
by L. E Danoey. 1127
DR. F. J. BURROWS,
Late !resident Physician and Surgeon, Toronto Gen -
end Hospital. Honor graduate Trinity University,
enember of the College ot Physiolans and Surgeons
o Ontsrio. Coroner for the County of Huron.
grOFFICE.—Same as formerly occupied by Der.
Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telepho%
1(0.16, N. B.—Night calls answered from {Moe.
1886
DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Goderieh street, opposite Methodist chureh,Seaforth
J. G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, and
member Ontario College of Physicians and
Sergeons. Coroner for County of Huron.
C. MeeKAY, honor graduate Trinity University,
gold medalist Trinity Medical College. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.
1483
- AUCTIONEERS.
WM. MIXON',
Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth,
and Agent at Hensel' for the Maseey-Harris Manu-
facturing Company. Sales promptly attended to,
sharges moderate and . satistaohon guaranteed.
Ovdera by mall addressed to Hensall Post Office, or
left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession 11, Tuck-
ersinith, will receive prompt attention. 129641
TORN H. McDOUGALL, Licensed Auotioneer for
el the County of Huron. Sales .attended in all
parte of the county. Terms reasonable. From Mr.
MoDougall's long eeperience as .a dealer in farm
etock of all kinds, he ie specially qualified to judge
of values, and cm guarantee satiefaetion. 'All orders
left at Tint Exposima office, di at his reeidenee, Lot
3, Concession 3, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, will be
promptly attended to. 1466
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WORLD GO ROUND." -1
Some people think inoney is a greater
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See how the great money kings are eon.;
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1
every idiot who goes about with Merry ;
ChristmasWon his lips, should be boiled ;
with hia ownipudding, and buried with a!
stake of holly through his heart. He •
should 1"
Uncle 1" pleaded the nephew,
"'Nephew 1" returned the uncle, sternly,
" keep Christmas in your way, and let rtge;
keep it in mine."
"Keep it 1" repeated Scrooge's nephew.,
" But you don't keep it."
" Let me leave it alone, than, said!
Scrooge. Much good may it do 'you 1;
Mueli good it has ever done you- !"
" There are many things Irene which I
miglitehave deribed good, by 'which I have
not profited, I dare say," returned the
nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But
I an' sure I have always thought of Christ
tnas time, when it has come round—apart
from the veneration due to its sacred name
and origin, if anything belonging to it can
be apart from that—as a good time : a kind,
forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the
only time I know of, in the long calendar of
the year, when men and women seem by
one consent to open their shut -up hearts
'freely, and to think of people below them as
if they really were fellow passengers to the
grave, and not another race of people bound
on other journeys. eAnd: therefore, uncle,
though it has never put a scrap of gold or
silver in my pocket, 1 believe that it has
done me goods and will do me good ; and I
say, God bless it 1"
The clerk in the tank involuntarily ap-
plauded. Becoming immediately sensible
of the impropriety, he poked the bre, and
extinguished the last frail spark for ever:
"Let me hear another sound from
you," said Scrooge, "and you'll keep your
Christmas by losing your situation 1 You're
quite a powerful speaker, sir," _ he added,
turning to his nephew. "1 wonder yoh
don't go into Parliament."
"Don't be angry, uncle. Come ! Dine
with us to-morrove. -
Scrooge said that he would see him—yeti,
indeed he did. He went the whole length
of the expression, and said that he would
see him in that extrernity,first.
But why ?" cried Scrooge's nephew.
" Why ?" •
" Why did you get married ?" " said
Scrooge.
;" Because I fell in love."
"Because you fell in love 1" growled
Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing
in the world. more ridiculous than a mer ry
Christmas. " Good -afternoon 1" '
" Nay, uncle, but you never caine to see
me before that 1-ippened. Why give it las
a reason for not oming now 2"
"Good -afternoon," said Scrooge.
"1 want nothing from you ; I ask noth-
ing of you • *by cannot we be friends ?"
" Good -afternoon," said Scrooge.
"1 am sorry, with all my ,heart, to find
you so resolute. We have never had any
quarrel, to which I have been a party. But
I have made theitrial in homage to Christ-
mas, and I'll keep my Christmas bunion to
the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle 1"
"Good -afternoon 1" said Scrooge.
The door of Sctooge's counting -house was
open that he nhght keep his eye upon his
clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, l a
sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge
had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire
was so very*much smaller that it looked like
one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for
:Scrooge kept the coal -box in his own room;
and so surely as the clerk came in with the
• shovel, the master predicted that it would
be necessary for them to part. Wherefore
the clerk put on his white comforter, and
tried to warm himeelf at the candle ; in
which effort, not being a man of 'strong im-
agination, he failed.
"A merry Christmas, uncle i God save
you 1" cried a cheerful -voice. It was the
voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon
him so quickly -that this was the first inti-
mation he had of his approach.
ti Bah 1" said Scrooge, " Humbug !"
He had so heated himself with rapid walk,-
ing in the fog and frost, this nephew of
Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his
face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes
sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
"Christmas a humbug, uncle 1" said
Scrooge's nephew. " You don't mean that,
I am sure ?" .
"1 do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christ-
mas 1 What right have you to be merry?
What reason have you to he merry. You're
poor enough." .
"Come then," said the nephew gayly
What right have you to be dismal. What
reason have you ,to be morose; You're rich
enough.
Scrooge having no better answer ready on
the spur • of the moment, said "Bah 1"
again ; and followed it up with "humbug."
"Don't be- cross, uncle !" said the
nephew.
' What else can I be," returned the
uncle, "when I live in such a wOrld of
fools as tm' 9 Merry Christmas ! Qut up-
on:i err eistmas 1 What's Christmas
time to yeti but a time for paying bills
without zlioney ; a time for finding yourself
a yeer older, but not an hour richer ; a time
for balanhing your books and having every
*item in "ern through a round dozen of months
presented dead against you? If I could
work my will," said Scrooge indignantly,
CIAELJEOPC:+3ELX.A..
Ike fac-
simile
signature
of
Ss ea
every
ee' vreeper.
"And Happy New Year 1",
" flood -afternoon 1" said Scrooge.
His nephew left the room withoutan
angry word, notwithstanding. He stopped
at the outer door to bestow the greetinv of
the season on the clerk, who cold as he was,
was warmer than Scrooge ; who,
he returned
them cordially.
"There's another fellow," muttered
Scrooge ; who overheard him: "my clerk,
with fifteen shillings a -week, and a wife
and family, talking about a merry Christ.
mas. I'll retire to Bedlam."
This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew
out, had let two other people in. They
were portly gentlemen' pleasant to behold,
and now stood, withtheir - hats off; in
Scrooge's office. They had books , and
papers in their hands, and bowed to him.
" Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," ;said
one of the gentlemen, referring to his list.
"Have 1 the pleasure of addressing 'Mr.
Scrooge, or Mr. Marley ?"
"Mr. Marley has been dead these Seven
years," Scrooge replied. " He died seven
years ago, this very night."
"We have no dotibt his liberality is well
represented by his surviving partner," said
the gentleman, presenting his credentials.
It certainly was ; for they had been two
kindred spirits„ At the ominous word
"liberality," Scrooge frowned, and shook
his head and handed the credentials back.
"At this festive season of the year,1 Mr.
Scrooge " said the gentleman, taking hip a
pen, ft is more -than usually desirablethat
we should make some slight Provisio for
the Poor and Destitute,who suffer grea ly t
the present time. Many thousands a •e iji
want of common necessaries; hundreds o
thousands of them are in want of common
comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons 71" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman,
laying down the pen again.
And the Union workhouses ?" dein/end-
ed Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentle-
man. I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and. the Poor taw are in
full vigor, then ?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, air."
" Oh ! I was afraid from what you said
at first, that something had occurred to
stop them in their useful course," said
Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it.'
C:341LEPINOrfaXegini
ALMON EXPOSITOR
Under:the impression that they seemly merlon, it was a knocker again.
furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to To say that he was not startled, Or that
the multitude, returned the gentleman, hie blood was not conscious of a terrible
"al few of us are endeavoring to raise a sensation to whioh it had keen a stranger
fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, from infancy, would be untrue. But he put
and means of warmth. We choose this his hand upon the key he had relinquished,
time because it is a time, of all others, turned it sturdily; walked in, and lighted
when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance his candle.
rejoices. What shall 1 put,you down for ?" He did pause, with a moment's irresoIu-
rg Nothing 1" Scrooge replied. tion, before he shut the door,; and he did
'I' You wish to be anonymeus ?" lookeautiously behind it first, as if he half -
"1 wish to be left alone," said ,Scrooge, expected to be terrified with the sight of
"Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, Motley's pigtail stroking out into the hall.
thet is my answer. I don't make merry But there was nothing on. the back or the
myself at Christmas and I can't afford to door, except the screws and nuts that held
make idle people merry. I help to .support the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh 1"
the establishments I have mentioned—they and closed it with a bang.
est enough ; and those who are bad* off The sound resounded through the house
must go there." like thunder. Every room above, and every
." Many can't go there ; and many would cask in the wine -merchant's cellar below,
&Maned to have a separate peal of echoes
of its own. Scrooge was not a man
to be frightened by echoes. He
fastened the door and walked across the
hall, and up the stairs ; slowly too; trim-
ming his candle as he went.
You maehtolk -vaguely about driving a
coach -and -six up a good old flight of stairs,.
or through a bad young Act of Parliament;
but 1 mean to -say you might have got a
hearse up thatetaircase, and taken it broad -
wise, with thesplinter-bar Cowards the wall
and the,door tower& the balustrades: and
done it eaey. There was plenty of width
for that, and room to spare; which is per-
haps the reason why Scrooge thought hei
saw a locomotive hearse going on before him
in the gloom. Halfsa-dozen gas -lamps out
of the etreet wouldn't have lightett the
entry too Well, so that you may suppose
that it Was pretty dark with Scrooge's
p Scroege went, not caring a button for -
that. Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked
it. But before he.shut his heavy door, he
walked through his rooms to see that all
was right. He had just enough recollection
of the face to desire to do that.
Sitting -room, bed -room, lumber -room.
All as they should be. Nobody under the
table, nobody under the sofa ; a small fire
in the grate ; spcion and basin ready; and
a little saucer of gruel (Scrooge had a cold
in his head) upon the hob. Nobody under
the bed ; nobody in the closet; noloody in
his dressing -gown, which WAS hanging up in
a suspicious attitude against the wall.
Lumber -room as usual. Old fire -guard, old
shoes, two fish -baskets, wash -stand on three
legs,. and a, poker.
Quite satisfied, closed his door, and
locked himself in ; double -locked himself in,
which wae not his custom. Thus secured
against surprise, he took off his cravat ; put
on his dressing -gown and slippers, and his
night-cap -; and sat down before the fire to
take his gruel.
It was a very low fire indeed; nothing
on such a bitter night. He was obliged to
sit close to it, and brood over it, before he
could extract the least sensation of warmth
from such'a handful of fuel. The fire -place
was an old one, built by some Dutch mer-
chant long ago, and paved all round with
quaint Dutch tiles, designed to 'illustrate
the Scriptures. There were Coins and
Abels, Pharaoh's daughters, Queens of
Sheba, Angelic messengers descending
through the air on clouds like feather -beds,
Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting
off to sekin butter -boats, hundreds of fig-
ures to attract his thoughts ; and yet -that
face of Marley, seven years dead, came like
the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed
up the whole. If each smooth tile bad been
a blank at first,'ivith power tO shape some
picture on its surface from , the disjointed
fragments of his thoughts, there would
have been a copy of old Marley's .head on
every
rather die.
If they would rather die," said Scrooge,
they bad better do it, and decrease the sur-
plus population. Besides—excuse me—I
don't know that."
"But you might know it," observed the
gentleman.
"It's not my businese," Scrooge return-
ed. "It's enough for a mem to understand
his own business and not to interfere with
other people's. 'Mine occupies me constant-
ly. Good -afternoon, gentlemen 1"
Seeing clearly that It would be useless to
pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew.
Scrooge resumed his labors with an improv-
ed opinion of himself, and in a more faceti-
ous temper than was usual with him.
Meanwhile the fog and darkness thicken-
ed so, that people ran about with flaring
proffering their services to go before
horses in carriages, and conduct them on
their way. The ancitnt tower of a chureh,
whose gruff old bell was always peeping
slily down at Scrooge out of a gothic win-
dow in the wall, became invisible, and
, &truck the hours and quarters in the clouds,
with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if
its teeth were chattering in its frozen head
up there. The cold became intense. In
' the main street, at the corner of the court,
some laborers were repairing the gas -pipes,.
and had lighted a great fire in a brazier,
round which a party of ragged men and
boys were gathered: warming their hands
and winking their eyes before the blaze in
rapture. The water -plug being left in soli-
tude, its overflowings suddenly congealed,
and turned to misanthropic ice. The bright -
n ss of the ehops where holly sprigs and
b rries creckled in the lamp heat of the
indi,owa,lmade pale faces :ruddy as they
used. Poulterers' and !grocers' trades
ecame a splendid joke : a glorrous pageant,
with which it wile next to impossible to be-
lieve that sueh dull principles as bargain
and sale had anything to do. The Lord
Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty
Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty
cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a
Lord Maycn'a househould should; and even
the little tailor, whom he had fined five
shillings on the previous Monday for being
drunk and bloodthirsty in the street, stirred
up to -morrow's pudding in his garret, while
his lean wife and the baby sallied out to
buy the beef.
Foggier yet, and colder Piercing,
searching, biting cold. If the good Saint
Dunstan ha.a but .nipped the Evil Spirit's
nose with a' touch of such weather as that,
instead of using his familiar weapons, then
inaed he would heve roared to lusty pure
pose. The owner of one scant young nose,
guawed and mumbled by the hungry cold
as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down
at Scrooge's keyhole to -hregale him with a
Christmas carol ; but at the first sound of
"God blew you tiler% gentimen
The fac-
simile
signattno
of
_ - -
!on
etery
wrapper.
May nothing you d may 1"
Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of
action, that the singer fled in terror, leav-
ing the keyhole to the fog and even more
congenial frost.
At length the hour of shutting up the
counting -house arrived, With an ill -will
Scrodge dismounted from his stool, and
tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant
clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his
candle out; and put on his hat.
"You'll want all day to -morrow, I sup.
pose ?" said Scrooge.
" It' quite convenient, air."
"It's not convenient," said Scrooge,
"and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-
crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used.
I'll be bound ?"
The clerk smiled faintly.
"And yet," said Scrooge,- " you don't
think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages
for no work."
The elerk observed that it was only once
a yea r,
A poor excuse for picking a man's
pocket every twenty-fifth of December 1"
said Scrooge, buttoning his great coat to the
chin. "But I suppose you must,. have the
whole day. Be here all the earlier next
morning.
The clerk promised that he would ; nd
Scrooge w lked otit with a growl. The
office was closed in a twinkling, and the
clerk, with the long ends of his white com-
forter dangling below his waist ,(for he
boasted no greatrooat,) went down a slide'
on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys,
twentytirnes in honor of its being Christ-
mas Eve, and then ran home to Camden
Town as hard as hecould pelt,- to play at
blindman's buff.
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in
bis usual Melancholy tavern ; and having
read all the newspapers, and beguiled the
rest of the evening with his banker's -book,
went home to bed. He lived in chambers
which had once belonged to his deceased
partner. They were a gloomy suite of
rooms, in a lowering pile of buildings up a
yard, where it had so little business to be,
that it could scarcely help fancying it must
have run there when it was a young house,
playing, at hide.and-seek with other houses,
and forgotten the way out again. It was
old enough now, and dreary enough, for
nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other
rooms being all let out as offices. The yard
WM so dark that even Scrooge, who knew
its every stone, was fain to grope with his,
hands. The fog and frost so hung about
the black old gateway of the house, that it
seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat
in mournful meditation on the threshold.
Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing
at all particularabout the knocker on the
door, except that it was very large. It is
also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it, night
and morning, during his whole residence in
of svhat is called fan'j about him as any
that place ; also that Strooge had as little
man in the city of•London,even including—
which is a bold word—the corporation,
aldermen, and livery. Let it also be berm
in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one
thought on Marley, since his last mention of
his seven years' dead partner that after-
noon. And then let any man explain to me
if he can, how it happened that Scrooge,
having his key in the lock of the door, saw.
in the knocker, without its undergoing any
intermediate process, of change—not -a
knocker, but Marley's face.
Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable
shadow as the other objects in the yard
were but had a dismal light about it, like a
bad
were,
in a dark cellar. It was not
angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as
Marley used to look : with ghostly spectacles
turned up on its ghastly forehead. The
hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath
or hot-air ; and, though the eyes were wide
open, they were perfectly motionless. That,
and its livid color, made it horrible; but
its horror seemed to be in spite of the face
and beyond its control, rather than a part
of its own expression:
As Scrooge looked fixedly at this pheno-
--CIALESIreblIFLX41L.
Vet fac-
simile
signature
of
la ea
1444' every
weaver.
"Humbug 1" said Scrooge ; and walked
across the room.
(To be continued.)
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baying gained t
smartest sawmill
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