The Complete Christmas Books and Stories. Charles Dickens
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Chapter 1 — Picking Up Soot and Cinders
Chapter 6 — Picking Up Miss Kimmeens
Chapter 7 — Picking Up the Tinker
Chapter 1 — His Leaving It Till Called For
Chapter 3 — His Brown-Paper Parcel
Chapter 1 — How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business
Chapter 2 — How the Parlours Added a Few Words
Chapter 1 — Mrs. Lirriper Relates How She Went On, and Went Over
Chapter 2 — Mrs. Lirriper Relates How Jemmy Topped Up
Chapter 2 — Barbox Brothers and Co.
The Curtain Rises
Vendale Makes Love
In the Valley
The Clock-lock
A Christmas Carol
First published : 1843
Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits
Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits
Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits
Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost
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