It 's a wonderful knocker ! -- Here 's the Turkey . Hallo ! Whoop ! How are you ? Merry Christmas ! '' It was a Turkey ! He never could have stood upon his legs , that bird . He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute , like sticks of sealing-wax . `` Why , it 's impossible to carry that to Camden Town , '' said Scrooge . `` You must have a cab . '' The chuckle with which he said this , and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey , and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab , and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy , were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again , and chuckled till he cried . Shaving was not an easy task , for his hand continued to shake very much ; and shaving requires attention , even when you do n't dance while you are at it . But , if he had cut the end of his nose off , he would have put a piece of sticking-plaster over it , and been quite satisfied . He dressed himself `` all in his best , '' and at last got out into the streets . The people were by this time pouring forth , as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present ; and , walking with his hands behind him , Scrooge regarded every one with a delighted smile . He looked so irresistibly pleasant , in a word , that three or four good-humoured fellows said , `` Good morning , sir ! A merry Christmas to you ! '' And Scrooge said often afterwards that , of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard , those were the blithest in his ears . He had not gone far when , coming on towards him , he beheld the portly gentleman who had walked into his counting-house the day before , and said , `` Scrooge and Marley 's , I believe ? ''
It sent a pang across his heart XXXXX think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met ; but he knew what path lay straight before him , and he took it .
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