Unknown Story
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- Scrooge and Marley
- *Sigh*
- *Grumble*
- Scrooge and Marley
- Humbug!
- Scrooge and Marley
- Good afternoon!
- The story begins by saying that Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner in the firm of Scrooge & Marley, was dead — the story takes place seven years after his death to the very day, Christmas Eve. Scrooge and his clerk Bob Cratchit are at work in the counting house, with Cratchit sitting in the poorly heated "tank", because of Scrooge's horribleness.
- Scrooge and Marley
- If you must...
- Scrooge's nephew, Fred, enters to wish his uncle a "Merry Christmas" and invite him to Christmas dinner the next day. Fred is excused by his relative with "Bah! Humbug!" among other words, declaring Christmas time to be a fraud.
- Ahhhh!
- Two "portly gentlemen", collecting charity for the poor, come in afterwards, but they too are rejected by Scrooge, who points out that the poor laws and workhouses are enough to care for the poor. When Scrooge is told that many would rather die than go there, he snaps, "If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
- Can I just get them all done at once?
- At the end of the workday, Scrooge reluctantly allows Cratchit to take Christmas Day off, but to arrive to work all the earlier on the day after. Scrooge leaves the counting-house, eats dinner at his usual tavern, and returns to his home, an isolated town house formerly owned by his late business partner, Jacob Marley.
- When Scrooge arrives home, he is startled to see the ghostly face of his partner, Marley, appear on the knocker on the door. He disregards this and heads up his staircase to where he has another "hallucination" of a hearse chasing him up the stairs. Soon after he's had his gruel, more crazy things happen in his house, like fireplace art changing faces and bells ringing. Leading up to this event Marley's ghost finally phases through the cellar door.
- Marley has come to warn Scrooge that his miserableness and contempt for others will subject him to the same fate Marley himself suffers in death: cursed to watch the poor suffer and not be able to do nothing about it. Marley says that Scrooge's chain will be much heavier than his due to his greediness once he dies, the only solution to freeing him from this fate is to be enlightened by three spirits in the next twelve hours and make him enjoy Christmas for once.
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