`` No , no , '' said Scrooge . `` Oh , no , kind Spirit ! say he will be spared . '' `` If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future , none other of my race , '' returned the Ghost , `` will find him here . What then ? If he be like to die , he had better do it , and decrease the surplus population . '' Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit , and was overcome with penitence and grief . `` Man , '' said the Ghost , `` if man you be in heart , not adamant , forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is , and Where it is . Will you decide what men shall live , what men shall die ? It may be that , in the sight of Heaven , you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man 's child . Oh God ! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust ! '' Scrooge bent before the Ghost 's rebuke , and , trembling , cast his eyes upon the ground . But he raised them speedily on hearing his own name . `` Mr. Scrooge ! '' said Bob . `` I 'll give you Mr. Scrooge , the Founder of the Feast ! '' `` The Founder of the Feast , indeed ! '' cried Mrs. Cratchit , reddening . `` I wish I had him here .
I 'd give him a piece XXXXX my mind to feast upon , and I hope he 'd have a good appetite for it . ''
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