Scrooge faces Bob Cratchit and complains about Bob's wish to take a day off for the holiday. Scrooge angrily said that workhouses and prisons are the only charities he would support, so the gentlemen left empty-handed. After Fred leaves, some gentlemen enter the office to request Scrooge a generous charity donation to help the needy. The grim Scrooge responded only with a "Bah! Humbug!" and refused to share Fred's Christmas joy. The young man was Scrooge's cheerful nephew Fred who stopped by to ask Scrooge to come to the Christmas dinner. Unexpectedly, a young man entered the office and gave them holiday greetings. Despite the extreme weather Scrooge refused to pay for more coal to warm his office. The burning ashes in the fireplace provided a bit of heat even though Bob's room was tiny. Inside the office, Scrooge watched over his writer, a poor miniature man called Bob Cratchit. Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley had died seven years earlier. Outside the office was standing a little sign that said "Scrooge and Marley". On a cold, misty Christmas Eve in London, a smart, mean-spirited penny-pincher named Ebenezer Scrooge worked punctiliously in his counting-house.
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