Bob Cratchit's Merry Christmas

Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim have in the present that Scrooge does not though indeed Scrooge very swiftly becomes concerned with whether Tiny Tim will live or not. All the Cratchit family drew round the hearth in what Bob Cratchit called a circle meaning half a one then Bob proposed a merry Christmas to us all my dears God bless us all which all the family re-echoed God bless us every one said Tiny Tim the last of all spirit says Scrooge. If he be like to die he had better do it and decrease the surplus population if man you be in heart not adamant for bear that wicked can't until you have discovered what the surplus is