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d a very small Christmas pudding. Scrooge felt sad, because he could see how poor the Cratchits were. Bobs smallest child, Tiny Tim, was week and ill. The ghost finally took Scrooge to a very poor area of London. There were two poor children out in the street. "Cant we do something to help these children?" he asked the ghost, who repeated what Scrooge had said before. "Are there no prisons?" The ghost laughed and disappeared.

Then the third ghost appeared. He was dressed in black and looked. . . "Are you the Ghost of Christmas Future?" Scrooge asked nervously. The ghost did not answer. It took Scrooge and showed him scenes of the future. In one people were talking about Scrooges death, but not one person was unhappy without it. The ghost also took him to the Cratchit family. The family was very sad. The little boy, Tinny Tim, had died.

The next morning Scrooge opened his window and asked, "What day is it today?" "Why, sir, its Christmas Day," replied a young boy in the street. Scrooge was very happy. He gave money to the Boy to buy an enormous turkey for the Cratchit family. Then he went out into the street. "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" He wished everybody he saw Merry Christmas. He met the men who had asked for money for the poor and gave him a large sum of money. Scrooge then went and visited his nephew and had the best Christmas dinner in his life.

The next day he went to his office early. He waited for Bob Cratchit. "You are late!" said Scrooge in an angry voice. "Yes, I am sorry. . . " replied poor Bob. "In that case, Im afraid Im going to . . . increase your salary! Merry Christmas, Bob!"
From that day, Scrooge was the happiest man in

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