![]() ![]() It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy, and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. Once upon a time-of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Read the following extract from A Christmas Carol and consider the questions below. ![]() Reading Exercise: A Christmas Carol (Extract) Palpable: something that can be felt, or is almost physical.Humbug: used in the past to refer to fraud/lies, though it has come (through this story) to be considered a general exclamation of displeasure. ![]()
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