Krsna Bless US, Every one !

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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely

more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He

became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the

good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the

good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he

let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know

that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people

did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such

as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they

should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less

attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for

him.

He had no further interviews with Spirits, but lived upon the Total

Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him,

that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the

knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny

Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

 

Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"

December, 1843.