Today's Advent goodie is the classic holiday ghost story, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
Tags: Christmas, Advent, short story, Dickens
"Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure."Are you a Scrooge this Christmas season?
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
[. . .]
"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 this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"
Tags: Christmas, Advent, short story, Dickens
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