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Scrooge: Oh, they are a wonderful family. I am so alone. (He sees little Tim.) What is
wrong with this boy?

2nd spirit: He is very ill, but the family has no money for medicine, because you don’t pay
Cratchit a lot of money!

Scrooge (sadly): Oh, I’m so sorry. What can I do?

2nd spirit: You must change your life, Scrooge! Come on, we must go back! (It takes
Scrooge by the hand and they fly back to his bedroom; Scrooge goes to bed again.)

Scene 5

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

3rd spirit: Wake up, Scrooge!

Scrooge (scared): Who are you?
3rd spirit: I’m the Ghost of Christmas

Yet to Come.

Scrooge (angrily): What do you want?
3rd spirit: I want to show you the future!

(It takes Scrooge by the hand and they fly to a graveyard.)

Scrooge: Where are we?

3rd spirit: Have a look!

Scrooge (sees his tombstone): Oh, this is my grave! (looks
closer; scared) But it is empty!

3rd spirit: Yes, there is no body in this grave, because you
are a ghost, Scrooge! Just like your good old friend Marley!

Scrooge (falls to his knees and begins to cry): No, I want to change my life! I want to be a
better person! Please, give me a chance!

(The third ghost takes Scrooge by the hand and they fly back to his bedroom; Scrooge goes to
bed again, still crying quietly.)

Scene 6

Narrator: The next morning Scrooge wakes up to the sound of church bells.

Scrooge (excitedly and happily): It’s Christmas today! I must go
graveyard: a burial ground,
to Cratchit and give him money for his family! And I must make especially one beside a
a big Christmas party for everyone! (He opens the window and church

shouts to the people in the street.) Merry Christmas, everyone! tombstone: a large, flat
inscribed stone standing or
laid over a grave

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