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Scrooge: You are a bad dream! Go away! (He pulls the sheets over his head.)

Marley: Tonight three spirits will come and visit you. Goodbye, Scrooge! ( flies off )

Scene 3
What do you
Narrator: The clock strikes one. (Dong!) Just a Minute!
think Scrooge
1st spirit: Wake up, Scrooge! means when he says
‘humbug’?
Scrooge (scared): Who, and what are you?

1st spirit: I’m the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Scrooge (angrily): What do you want?

1st spirit: I want to show you the past! (It takes

Scrooge by the hand and they fly to the past:
there is a Christmas party with music and
dancing; a young Scrooge dances and sings
with the other people.)

Scrooge: Oh, this is me. Look, I was very
happy in the past. (He begins to dance and

hum with the others.)

1st spirit: We must go back, Scrooge!
(It takes Scrooge by the hand and they fly back to his bedroom; Scrooge goes to bed again.)

Scene 4

Narrator: The clock strikes two. (Dong! Dong!)

2nd spirit: Wake up, Scrooge!

Scrooge (scared): Who are you?

2nd spirit: I’m the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Scrooge (angrily): What do you want?

2nd spirit: I want to show you the present!

(It takes Scrooge by the hand and they fly to
Cratchit’s house; Cratchit’s family sit around the
dinner table and pray.)

Cratchit: Dear Lord, we don’t have much money,
but we are very happy today, because we have got
each other. Thank you for this wonderful family.

Amen. (He smiles.)

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