A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
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This workbook features the Victorian holiday classic 1843 English story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This is one of the most popular stories of all time. Delight in Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from "Bah-humbug" to "Merry Christmas." And who can forget Tiny Tim? "God bless us, every one!" Appropriate for grades five and up, this workbook is sixty pages in length. Click here to print. |
| Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. 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. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail... |
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