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May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.  \nTheir faithful Friend and Servant,  \nC. D.  \nDecember, 1843.  \nCONTENTS  \nSTAVE I  \nMARLEY‟S GHOST  \nSTAVE II  \nTHE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS  \nSTAVE III  \nTHE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS  \nSTAVE IV  \nTHE LAST OF THE SPIRITS  \nSTAVE V  \nTHE END OF IT  \nILLUSTRATIONS  \nArtist.  \nMarley‟s Ghost  \nJ. Leech  \nGhosts of Departed Usurers  \n,,  \nMr. Fezziwig‟s Ball  \n,,  \nScrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits  \n,,  \nScrooge‟s Third Visitor  \n,,  \nIgnorance and Want  \n,,  \nThe Last of the Spirits  \n,,  \nScrooge and Bob Cratchit  \n,,  \n\n| [www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com](www.STUDENTHANDOUTS.com) | Page 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nStudent Handouts (Order \\#3768631)  \nSTAVE ONE.  \nMARLEY’S GHOST.  \nMarley 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.  \nMind! I don‟t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, orthe Country‟s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.  \nScrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don‟t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. 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