Sunday, January 8, 2012

Charles Dickens's Holiday Leave

You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?It's not convenient and it's not fair. If I was to stop half a crown for it, you'd think yourself ill used, I'll be bound?...And yet, you don't think me ill used when I pay a day's wages for no work....A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December...

[Christmas Carol - Mr Scrooge, the employer  to Bob Cratchit, the poor employee on Christmas Eve evening ]

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