Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves.. Dickens Charles

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      Scro. You are not looking at it.

      Gho. But I see it, notwithstanding.

      Scro. Well! I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of gobblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug. (Ghost rattles chain, takes bandage off jaws, and drops lower jaw as far as possible.)

      Scro. (Betrays signs of fright.) Mercy! dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

      Gho. Man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me, or not?

      Scro. I do. I must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?

      Gho. It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men and travel far and wide, and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world – oh, woe is me – and witness what it can not share, but might have shared on earth, turned to happiness. [Shakes chain and wrings his hands.]