| Show 1 I Presented for Yours ours and an Your Family's Enjoyment This Holiday Season by the e I TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY r o 4 A 9 r Charles Dickens 1 L ARLEY was dea dead Ji L Scrooge knew he was dead Of Ot course he did Scrooge and he were partners Scrooge was his sole executor executor tor hi his sole friend and sole mourner And even Scrooge was not so cut up by the sad event Oh But he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge a squeezing wrenching grasping scraping clutching clutching clutch clutch- ing covetous old sinner v vOnce Once upon a time time time-on on Christmas Eve old Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting A merry Christmas uncle I God save you cried his nephews nephew's cheerful voice 1 Bah said Scrooge Humbug i Then two portly gentlemen came In At this festive Cestive season of the year Mr Scrooge s said id idone one gentleman it is more than usually desirable that we i 1 a SCROOGE awoke before the hour bell sounded which it w 1 now did with a deep dull hollow melancholy One Light flashed up hi in n the room upon the instant and the curtains of nis lis bed were we're drawn by a small elfish creature I am the Ghost of Christmas Past it said slid As the words were spoken they passed through the wall and stood upon an open country road Good Heaven said Scrooge I was a boy here They went the Ghost and Scrooge to a melancholy room made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks At one of these hese a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self ashe as ashe ashe he used to be and glanced anxiously towards the door It opened and a little girl much younger than the boy came darting In and putting her arms about his neck and kissing him addressed him as her Dear dear brother 4 r should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute What will you give Nothing Scrooge replied I 1 help to support the poorhouses poor- poor houses they houses they cost enough and those who are badly ofT off must go there That evening Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern and having read all ail the newspapers newspapers news news- papers went home to bed As he threw his head back in the chair his glance happened hap to rest upon a disused bell that hung in the room It was with great astonishment that he saw this bell begin to swing It was succeeded by a clanking noise deep down below as as if it some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchants merchant's cellar It came through the door and passed into the room II 1 g fi I II I have come to bring you home dear brother brother- said the child Home for good and all Home for lor ever and ever Father is so much kinder that I was not afraid to ask him once more if it you might come home and he said Yes you should and sent me in a coach to bring you She was a dear girl said Scrooge She died a woman said sald the Ghost and had I think children One child Scrooge returned They proceeded and the Ghost stopped at a a. certain warehouse warehouse ware ware- house door and asked Scrooge i if he knew it it Why its it's old Bless his heart its it's alive again In came a fiddler to the warehouse e and tuned like fifty stomach stomachaches In came Mrs one vast substantial smile In came the three Miss l beaming end nd 7 lIoW Heavens It was Marley Marleys Marley's chain was made of ot cash boxes keys padlocks ledgers deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel Scrooge fell upon his knees Mercy he said Dreadful apparition why do you trouble me It is required of every man the Ghost returned that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen fellowmen fellow- fellow men and if that spirit goes not forth in l life e. e it is condemned to do so after alter death It is doomed to wander through the world world world-oh oh woe is me and me-and and I-and and witness what it cannot share but might have on earth and turned to lo happiness You will be haunted by Three Spirits Without their visits said the Ghost you cannot hope to shun the path I tread Expect the first when the bell tolls One To Be Continued I f Charles Charles- Dickens V K 1 JAA 4 l n x Ji loveable In came the six sL young followers whose hearts they broke In came all the young men and women employed em em- employed in the business They danced and ate then danced some more and all were gay with the Christmas season My time grows short observed the Spirit Quick 1 Scrooge now found himself by the side of a fair lair young girl in whose eyes there were tears It matters little she said softly To you OU very little Another idol has displaced me and if it can cheer and comfort comfort com com- fort you in time to come as I would have tried to do I have no just lust cause to grieve What Idol has displaced you he rejoined A golden one Spirit said Scrooge show me no more Conduct me home Why do you delight to torture me TO Be Continued |
