Calico Illustrated Classics: A Christmas Carol

Calico Illustrated Classics: A Christmas Carol — page 5
Scrooge had a small fire but the clerk’s fire was much smaller It was so much smaller that it was almost out The clerk couldn’t replenish his fire because Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room What choice did the clerk have but to put on his white comforter and try to warm himself with a candle A merry Christmas Uncle God save you cried a cheerful voice It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew Bah said Scrooge Humbug You don’t mean that Uncle said his nephew I do said Scrooge Merry Christmas What right have you to be merry You’re poor enough Come then said the nephew happily What right do you have to be so dismal You’re rich enough Scrooge had the only answer he could think of Bah humbug 8