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Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!" again; and followed it up with "Humbug."<\/p>\n

"Don't be cross, uncle!" said the nephew.<\/p>\n

"What else can I be," returned the uncle, "when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"<\/p>\n

"Uncle!" pleaded the nephew.<\/p>\n

"Nephew!" returned the uncle sternly, "keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine."<\/p>\n

"Keep it!" repeated Scrooge's nephew. "But you don't keep it."<\/p>\n

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