U.S. Kids, December 1st, 1998
"Be off with you!" Scrooge cried as the carol singers fled from his office door. "Bothering folk every twenty-fourth of December! Bah! Humbug!" Scrooge's poor clerk, Bob Cratchit, watched the scene in dismay.
Begrudgingly giving Bob the whole of Christmas day off, the miser trudged homeward. As he turned the key in his door, Scrooge was bewildered to see the knocker transform into the head of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley.
"Humbug!" Scrooge muttered. "Must be a trick of the light."
But he had to change his mind later that evening when Marley's ghost walked in through his bolted door...
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