scrooge merry christmas one and all
We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. That story is beyond Dickens and Scrooge and beyond the Christmas season — it is now and forever, each of us for the other, if we can hope to someday be merry together. Featuring the best in original plays and skits that have been performed by thousands of churches in all 50 states and many foreign countries! cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. It was the very thing he liked. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth, many have to slowly work their way in life to create a life. “At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. A Christmas … Scrooge lock up his office for the night. The spirits have done it all in one night. “I wonder you don’t go into Parliament.”, “Don’t be angry, uncle. Ah, he was a good 'ne. [Slides down banister] Scrooge : Ah, bless me. What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. Disney’s Scrooge McDuck and his tiny friends are pictured in a delightful scene that captures the emotions, colors and heartwarming joy of the final scene from Mickey’s Christmas Carol; Adds an uplifting accent to home holiday décor by instilling the re-awakened Christmas spirit from the Disney holiday favorite Mickey’s Christmas Carol To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. I get that we all need to live a life, we all need to eat, we all need to survive and most all want to prosper in life, but its tough. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. A national newspaper publisher has been branded a Scrooge following its decision to cut newsagents’ profits immediately after Christmas. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!” “Good afternoon,” said Scrooge. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge’s office. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. “It’s not my business,” Scrooge returned. The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded: becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. ES: Be off with you, scroungers, beggars, thieves.. CS1 : Merry Xmas Sir. If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. “There’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. "And A Happy New Year!" Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. This, then, is my Christmas message to you; to embrace the season of goodwill to all, and be like unto the spanners. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Scrooge is the main character of Dickens's novella and is first presented as a miserly, unpleasant man. This tribute site presents the text for your enjoyment, illustrated with images from my favorite screen adaptation, the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim in the role of everyone’s favorite miser. Merry Christmas One And All – Except Newsagents! Hallo here! But what did Scrooge care? "Good afternoon," said Scrooge. “The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said Scrooge. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. “What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? Much good it has ever done you!”, “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. Come! Hallo!" The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Ebenezer Scrooge – “That’s the only thing in the world sillier than a merry Christmas.” Fred – “It’s no use, Uncle. “Merry Christmas! What reason have you to be morose? But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! “Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?”, “Mr. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. “Don’t be cross, uncle!” said the nephew. “Are they still in operation?”, “They are. Nat King Cole is doing justice to the sounds filling the room. What reason have you to be merry? A Christmas Carol was published on 19th December 1843. “You don’t mean that, I am sure.”, “I do,” said Scrooge. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. Out upon merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? Pig trio: (singing) Bless you one and all-Merry Christmas! "I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. “Good afternoon,” said Scrooge. said Scrooge. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. He walked to the exchange. He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, “Good morning, sir! Scrooge returned his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”. Out upon merry Christmas! What reason have you to be morose? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of … Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir,” he added, turning to his nephew. It may not display this or other websites correctly. 'Merry, merry Christmas''Oh, what a merry Christmas day!' “Why?”, “Because you fell in love!” growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. They often “came down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did. You’re poor enough.”, “Come, then,” returned the nephew gaily. “Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. When will you come to see me?” No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. “Much good may it do you! “But you don’t keep it.”, “Let me leave it alone, then,” said Scrooge. SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Adapted by Ken Jones SYNOPSIS: In Ken Jones' adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol, a group of actors portray all the characters of this Christmas tradition. “Let me hear another sound from you,” said Scrooge, “and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation! “Don’t be cross, uncle!” said the nephew. Dine with us to-morrow.”. cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. Hello Scroogents...and Merry Christmas. Hallo here! Readers might infer that Scrooge developed self-containment by emotional necessity. Scrooge. "Good afternoon!" So A Merry Christmas, uncle!”. There is no doubt whatever about that. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. This, and several other visions, lead Scrooge to reform his ways. This site is part of the Sheep Laughs Records network of sites: www.SheepLaughs.com, 1938 “A Christmas Carol” with Reginald Owen, https://www.christianskitscripts.com/scrooge/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cut01.mp3. The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding. begin to make ghostly noises and walk around . Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? And Merry Christmas! Much good it has ever done you!”, “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is sent to show Scrooge that his death will come one day too and without making any human connections in life no one will mourn his passing. “You don’t mean that, I am sure?”, “I do,” said Scrooge. “A merry Christmas, uncle! But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, ‘Scrooge and Marley’s, I believe.’ They can do anything they like. “Oh! A merry Christmas to every-body! “What right have you to be dismal? Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. 33. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. Still,” returned the gentleman, “I wish I could say they were not.”. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. Why give it as a reason for not coming now?”, “I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”, “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. I am as giddy as a drunken man. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? So A Merry Christmas, uncle!”. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. “But why?” cried Scrooge’s nephew. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. “I wonder you don’t go into Parliament.”, “Don’t be angry, uncle. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. “But why?” cried Scrooge’s nephew. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! I’ll retire to Bedlam.”. Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, “No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!”. A merry Christmas to you!” And Scrooge said often afterwards that, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears. You are using an out of date browser. The first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. “A merry Christmas, uncle! It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits. Not a very merry Christmas for one and all . ----- What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? I am as giddy as a drunken man. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. My partner, Jacob Marley, dead seven years today. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!" We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”. A happy New Year to all the world! “But you don’t keep it.”, “Let me leave it alone, then,” said Scrooge. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. In particular, we like the 1984 version starring George C. Scott. When Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present he is shown just how ill the boy really is (the family cannot afford to properly treat him on the salary Scrooge pays Cratchit). Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. The Yule log is cracklin’ over the Bose soundbar. “Christmas among the rest. Character Scrooge Scrooge's Nephew said Merry Christmas and Scrooge said bah hum bug! “But you might know it,” observed the gentleman. “Much good may it do you! Scrooge : Merry Christmas to one and all! "Good afternoon," said Scrooge. Scrooge … Scrooge: Hm. “Why?”, “Because you fell in love!” growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. You’re rich enough.”, Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, “Bah!” again; and followed it up with “Humbug.”. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. The element of time is multi-layered in A Christmas Carol. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scene 2. Charles Dickens has just published “A Christmas Carol” especially for this Christmas. He should!”, “Nephew!” returned the uncle, sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”, “Keep it!” repeated Scrooge’s nephew. One: So, Mr. Scrooge closes up shop and heads home. A happy New Year to all the world. Oh, right. Whoop! I shall keep my Christmas humour to the last. Merry Christmas! Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir,” he added, turning to his nephew. "I don’t know what to do!" Of course they can (Dickens, 112).' When will you come to see me?” “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. One of my all-time favorites is A Christmas Carol and the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. You’re poor enough.”, “Come, then,” returned the nephew gaily. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. As Mr. Scrooge settles in for the night, he begins to hear noises in his house. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. Come! Creator of site: Frederick Passmore, writer/producer for Sheep Laughs Records. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. A merry Christmas to you. Marley was dead: to begin with. He rejoices to remember a “visit” from the storybook character Ali Baba. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. Scrooge knew he was dead? Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. "And A Happy New Year!" I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. They often “came down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did. The bells are always ringing the time for Scrooge, but there is a fluidity to time in the novel. Scene 3-Give a penny for the poor, guv'nor. God bless you! At the ominous word “liberality,” Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. Glorified descriptions ... presented by the Ghost of Christmas Present is but a reminder of the frugality that marks the festivities at the home of Scrooge’s clerk. He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. “Merry Christmas! The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of “God bless you, merry gentleman! Then all of a sudden someone said Scrooge over and over again in ghostly voice. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first. “He died seven years ago, this very night.”. “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. Readers learn that Scrooge lived a lonely childhood but compensated with imagination and fun. Where he made a deal about buying corn. All the . When visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge sees that Tiny Tim has died. Of course he did. “Scrooge was better than his word. “Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. “We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,” said the gentleman, presenting his credentials. The exact origin of the phrase Merry Christmas is unclear but the word ‘mery’ is associated with Christmas from the 1500s. What shall I put you down for?”, “I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge. Oh! The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. “It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. It’s Nineteenth Century London, and Scrooge is a bitter, cranky old man who exploits his employees and the people he does business with, and even ignores his own family. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already—it had not been light all day—and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. In a telling scene, two emaciated children named Ignorance and Want are hidden beneath the spirit’s robes. “Good afternoon!”, “Nay, uncle, but you never came to see me before that happened. “What right have you to be dismal? "I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Thank you, Mr. Scrooge! "Good afternoon," said Scrooge. page 11 / 152 “And A Happy New Year!” “What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? ES What? After hearing the 18/12/2020. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call “nuts” to Scrooge. “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens, is not only a classic, but one of the best-loved stories ever written. “Christmas among the rest.