![]() ![]() “I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. “Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him. He sat very close to his father’s side upon his little stool. “God bless us every one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one and at Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood the family display of glass. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire. Taken from the following passage in Stave 3 ( The Second Of The Three Spirits) of A Christmas Carol:Īt last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. This, and several other visions, lead Scrooge to reform his ways. The Ghost first states that ‘ If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die,’ then – quick to use Scrooge’s past unkind comments toward two charitable solicitors against him – suggests he ‘ had better do it, and decrease the surplus population‘. Scrooge asks if the desperately ill Tim will die. When visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge sees that Tiny Tim has died. The Cratchit family are unable to pay for proper care for him on Bob’s poor salary. Tim is disabled and requires the use of a crutch to walk. Timothy Cratchit, nicknamed Tiny Tim, is the youngest son of Bob Cratchit, the underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge. Illustration from Stave 3 of the original publication of A Christmas Carol showing the Ghost of Christmas Present visiting Ebenezer Scrooge. About The Circumlocution Office Website. ![]() The rise and fall of The Eagle and Grecian, City Road. All the fun of Charles Dickens’s Greenwich Fair.The Song of the Shirt: Mrs Biddell and an early victory in the Victorian court of public opinion.View over 250 locations associated with Charles Dickens in our trail.View quotations by character (sorted by work).View all our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations.The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain.Charles Dickens speech to Metropolitan Sanitary Association.Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852–1902).Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872).Alfred DOrsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912).Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863).Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929).Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896).
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