A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Bah! Humbug!’,,Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you’d never be so foolish as to wish him a ‘Merry Christmas’! Scrooge doesn’t believe in Christmas, charity, kindness – or ghosts.,,But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge r….Read More
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