Literature Spot 1 A CHRISTMAS CAROL By Charles Dickens
Excise 4 Read and listen to the story. It was Christmas Eve. Ebenezer Scrooge was in his office,the office of Scrooge and Marley. His clerk, poor Bob Cratchit, was working. Suddenly, Scrooge's young nephew came into the office. "Hello uncle. Merry Christmas!" he said happily. "Do you want to come and have Christmas dinner with us tomorrow!" "Christmas?" Scrooge replied. "Bah! Humbug!" Scrooge hated Christmas and he refused his nephew's invitation for dinner on Christmas Day. His nephew went away. Later two men came to the office, asking for money for the poor. "Bah! Are there no prisons for these people?"