I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

C. D.

December, 1843.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Artist John Leech

Marley’s Ghost

Ghosts of Departed Usurers

Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball

Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits

Scrooge’s Third Visitor

Ignorance and Want

The Last of the Spirits

Scrooge and Bob Cratchit

STAVE ONE

MARLEY’S GHOST

MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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