Category Archives: Scrooge

     Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end.  The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close to home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: Last Lecture of a Phantom”

     After tea, they had some music.  For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sang a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get redContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Fred’s Party”

     It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death; it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hearContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Fred’s Uncle”

    By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms, was wonderful.  Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking throughContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Other Christmases Present”

     Scrooge bent before the Ghost’s rebuke, and trembling cast his eyes upon the ground.  But he raised them speedily, on hearing his own name.      “Mr. Scrooge!” said Bob; “I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!”      “The Founder of the Feast indeed!” cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening, “I wish I hadContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Founder of the Feast”

      He sat very close to his father’s side, upon his little stool.  Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.      “Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never feltContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Tiny Tim”

     “And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content.      “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.  Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard.  HeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Cratchit Christmas Dinner”

     Scrooge promised that he would’; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town.  It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker’s) that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stoodContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Cratchits at Home”

      “Spirit,” said Scrooge, after a moment’s thought, “I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people’s opportunities of innocent merriment.”      “I!” cried the Spirit!      “You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on whichContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Sundays”

     Holly, mistletoe, and berries, ivy, turkey, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages,, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.  So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe), the people madeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Christmas Present”