![]() Scrooge disdains Marley's words until their visits. He also tells Scrooge that three ghosts will visit him that night. As the Cratchits and Fred enjoy Christmas Eve, Scrooge goes to his empty house where he is visited by the chained shade of Jacob Marley, Scrooge's late partner, who warns Scrooge that he must change his ways. The Cratchits are happy, though poor, with their one sorrow the health of Tiny Tim, their crippled youngest child. ![]() Bob does not tell his family, though, and buys the family's hoped for Christmas feast. ![]() Scrooge gruffly refuses, considering Christmas a humbug, and although he gives his underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit the day off, he later fires him when the meek Bob mistakenly pelts him with a snowball. On Christmas Eve, in mid-nineteenth century London, the miserly, hardhearted Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his kindly nephew Fred who invites him to dinner with him and his fiancée Bess. ![]()
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