This was a free download from Audible, and who can pass up a free Dickens?One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this one features a series of misunderstanding and coincidences in typical Dickens fashion.A Scrooge-like toymaker named Tackleton is engaged to marry a much younger woman, who clearly doe...
"Bah! Humbug!" Who does not recognise this expostulation, and the old curmudgeon who spat it out. The very name "Scrooge" has entered the vernacular to indicate a mean-spirited skinflint. "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, c...