A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Storyboard Text

  • “AmIthat man who lay upon the bed?” he cried, upon his knees.The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again“No, Spirit! Oh no, no!
  •  EBENEZER SCROOGE 
  • “I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath
  • “What’s to-day!” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes (...) To-day!” replied the boy. “Why,Christmas Day.”
  • “Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope!” (...) “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
  • He dressed himself “all in his best,” and at last got out into the streets.
  • “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
  • Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there?“It’s hanging there now,” replied the boy.“Is it?” said Scrooge. “Go and buy it.”