Scrooge Returns

Fog and darkness thickened, so that people ran about with flaring lynks proffer their services to go before horses in carriages. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall, became invisible. At the corner of the court, some laborers were repairing the gas pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered,. warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze. Foggier yet and colder, piercing, search biting cold. If the good saint dunstan had but