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Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.<\/p>\n

At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived. With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.<\/p>\n

"You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge.<\/p>\n

"If quite convenient, sir."<\/p>\n

"It's not convenient," said Scrooge, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?"<\/p>\n

The clerk smiled faintly.<\/p>\n

"And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work."<\/p>\n

The clerk observed that it was only once a year.<\/p>\n

"A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" said Scrooge, buttoning his great-coat to the chin. "But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning."<\/p>\n

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