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A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary, and Notes Rich Bowen Christmas, 2004 Contents 1 Introduction 6 2 Stave One : Marley's Ghost 7 2.1 Terms . 7 2.1.1 Stave . 7 2.1.2 Scrooge . 7 2.1.3 Good upon 'Change . 7 2.1.4 Door-nail . 8 2.1.5 The wisdom of our ancestors . 8 2.1.6 Assign . 8 2.1.7 Residuary Legatee . 8 2.1.8 His son's weak mind . 8 2.1.9 Nuts to . 9 2.1.10 Dog days . 9 2.1.11 Come down . 9 2.1.12 God save you! . 9 2.1.13 Humbug . 9 2.1.14 A stake of holly through his heart . 9 2.1.15 Fellow-passengers . 9 2.1.16 Situation . 10 2.1.17 Fifteen shillings . 10 2.1.18 Bedlam . 10 2.1.19 Are there no prisons? . 11 2.1.20 Union workhouses, the Treadmill, and the Poor Law . 11 2.1.21 Surplus population . 11 2.1.22 The palpable brown air . 11 2.1.23 Water plug . 12 2.1.24 Saint Dunstan . 12 2.1.25 Half a crown . 12 2.1.26 A bad lobster in a dark cellar . 12 2.1.27 ... through a bad young Act of Parliament . 13 2.1.28 Spliter-bar . 13 2.1.29 Dip . 13 2.1.30 Bowels . 13 2.1.31 Shade . 13 2.1.32 The bandage around its head . 13 2.1.33 From other regions . 13 2.2 Notes . 14 3 Stave Two : The First Of The Three Spirits 15 3.1 Terms . 15 3.1.1 United States' Security . 15 3.1.2 Gigs and carts . 15 3.1.3 Plain deal forms . 16 3.1.4 Valentine and Orson . 16 3.1.5 What's his name? . 16 3.1.6 Postboy . 16 3.1.7 Garden-sweep . 16 3.1.8 Welch wig . 17 3.1.9 ... hour of seven . 17 3.1.10 Organ of benevolence . 17 3.1.11 Porter . 17 3.1.12 Forfeits . 17 3.1.13 Negus . 18 3.1.14 Sir Roger de Coverly . 18 3.1.15 Beds ... under a counter . 18 3.1.16 Dowerless . 18 3.1.17 The celebrated herd in the poem . 18 3.2 Notes . 19 4 Stave Three : The Second Of The Three Spirits 20 4.1 Terms . 20 4.1.1 Free-and-easy . 20 4.1.2 Aquainted with a move or two . 20 4.1.3 Equal to the time-of-day . 20 4.1.4 Pitch and toss . 20 4.1.5 Living green . 20 4.1.6 No sword was in it . 20 4.1.7 Baker's shops . 20 4.1.8 Norfolk Biﬃns . 21 4.1.9 Daws . 21 4.1.10 Closed on the seventh day . 21 4.1.11 The fashionable Parks . 21 4.1.12 Supported by an iron frame . 22 4.1.13 Wash-house . 22 4.1.14 Twelfth-cakes . 22 4.1.15 Half of half-a-quartern . 22 4.1.16 Grog . 22 4.1.17 Tucker . 23 4.1.18 Glee . 23 4.1.19 Catch . 23 4.1.20 Yes and no . 23 4.1.21 Anther blindman . 23 4.1.22 ... with all the letters of the alphabet . 23 4.1.23 Twelfth Night . 23 4.2 Notes . 24 4.2.1 Dickens and social justice . ..

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