TABLE OF CONTENTS Stave One MARLEY S GHOST Stave Two THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 40 Stave Three THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 72 Stave Four THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 112 Stave Five THE END OF IT 140
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 doornail k Mind I don’t mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a doornail 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 un hallowed hands shall not disturb it or the Country’s done for You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a doornail Scrooge 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 as sign his sole residuary legatee his sole friend and sole mourner And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event but that he MARLEY’S GHOST 7 Stave One MARLEY’S GHOST
