00:00Beat it, brat! Catch it! Go fetch that coal!
00:03You're poor enough, rich enough to realize Christmas is a time for fools, finding themselves a year older and not
00:12an hour richer.
00:13If I had my way, every numbskull who goes about spouting many Christmas should be stuck like a turkey buried
00:22with a stake of holly through his heart.
00:24Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way. And let me keep it in mine. I keep busy, especially at this
00:33wasteful time of year.
00:35Mr. Marley died seven years ago this very night. That's only five lumps. Where's the sixth? Back to work.
00:45Gold's not cheap, you know. I wish to be left alone. I don't make merry at Christmas, and I can't
00:53afford to make idle people merry.
00:56My taxes pay for the prisons and workhouses, and those who are badly off should go there.
01:02Then they should do it, and decrease the selfless population. Beat it better!
01:09You have a family? If I dealt you for it, you'd feel cheated, I imagine. And yet, you don't think
01:16me cheated when I pay a day's wages for no work.
01:21A poor excuse for picking my pocket every December the 25th. Get the light, you liar, idiot.
01:27Waitress, here's the only tip you'll be getting from me. Find a new chef. Your hash isn't fit for a
01:35dog.
01:35I heard you had no heart, Jacob. Now I say it's true. You're probably just some undigested food. Some bad
01:44beef or a blob of mustard. There's more of gravy than a grave about you.
01:50Why do you haunt me? I can't see a chain. You simply visit me, and then everything's alright. I like
01:58chains. A night of unbroken sleep would be better for my good than this.
02:03I'm not made of mist and moonlight like you. I was a boy here. I could walk it blindfold. Choke
02:11dust and wood smoke.
02:13Why didn't you think of that, you twit? There was a boy at my door last night. I remember this
02:18day. He was my favorite storybook character. Such a large heart for such a tiny creature. My nephew of Fred.
02:27We had a happy Christmas in spite of father. Oh, I wish she were alive to invite me home again.
02:33Why, it's old Fezziwig, my boss. Blast my buttons. He hasn't changed a bit. I was in a Frenchess here.
02:42Good old Fezziwig. Show me a better boss than that, eh? You couldn't find that much happiness with a fortune.
02:49He had the power to render us happy or sad. To make our jobs a pleasure or a dronjorie.
02:56I'd like to be able to say something to Bob Cratchit just now. Go after her, you fool. I'm not
03:02gonna take it anymore. Go away. Leave me, maybe. I'm afraid not. But my dog gets lonely. It's just that
03:10why should I be accused of being selfish when Christmas is a selfish holiday? What do they have to do
03:17with me? It's something better than gold. I provide them with an income, and this is how they treat me.
03:24This is just before the pirates' attack. Oh, dear. Forget I said that and don't want to ruin it, Phil.
03:30Oh, and it's so exciting. Yes, read on. Read. A remarkable boy, but so frail. Tell me if Tiny Tim
03:39will live. Say he'll be spared. I didn't mean one of your Fred. I never realized how much he looks
03:47like that.
03:48Yes, I remember this. South is sooty soup. Did you see me, Swift? When I was just enjoying myself. Our
03:56spirits' lives so short. This is the business exchange. I come here often. I don't understand the meaning of this.
04:03This is a fearful place. But I see the lesson. The fate of this unhappy man might happen to me
04:11someday.
04:12Let me see some tenderness connected with the death. I beseech you. Adam and Christmas time be brave.
04:20I say it on my knees, old Jacob. On my knees. My spoons. They're still here.
04:27The dark shadows of things that would have been are gone. I know they are. Wait. Don't run. Please. Do
04:36you know the poultry shop down the street?
04:38An intelligent boy. A remarkable boy. Yes, my lad. That very one. We have much to do.
04:48Please. I must apologize to you both for the terrible way I treated you yesterday. Well, not that old Scrooge
04:56at any rate. Please, let me donate something. To make up.
05:01So, you'll come see me tomorrow at my office? Because it's too late to do it when we're dead.
05:08I like this feeling. Though I'm not used to all this smiling yet.
05:13How's this? You must look mean as well. What do you mean being here this time of day?
05:19I am not coming to stand for this sort of thing any longer. And therefore, I am about to raise
05:26your whole salary.
05:29A merry Christmas, Bob. A merry-er Christmas, my good fellow, that I have given you for many a year.
05:38And starting today, I'm paying you what you deserve. Just like at old Fezziwigs.
05:46And later, Fred and I will teach you Santa's sooty suit.
05:51Fred, my boy. Is there enough of your mother in you to forgive an old humbug?
05:56We're done to get you well, young man. And afterward, you can teach me to slide on the ice.
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