Little C. Oh! we forgot the pudding!
All. The pudding! the pudding! (Laughter and confusion.)
SCENE III.—A street. Mansion with lighted window, showing shadow of a group. Sounds of music inside.
Enter Spirit and Scrooge L. A lamp-lighter with torch and ladder R; as he passes them, the spirit waves his torch, and the lamp-lighter exits singing a carol. Enter two men, quarreling.
First Man. But, I know better, it is not so.
Second Man. It is so, and I will not submit to contradiction.
(Spirit waves his torch over them.)
First Man. Well, I declare, here we are, old friends, quarreling on Christmas Day. It is a shame to quarrel on Christmas Day.
Second Man. So it is a shame to quarrel on this day. God love it, so it is; come, and if we are not merry for the rest of it, it shall not be my fault. [Exeunt.]