Christmas Greetings from THE WORD

Y'know, ol' Eb was so cool in the first chapter, before the ghosts got to him and turned him into such a wuss:

"If I could work my will," said Scrooge, indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"

--What else but A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

(I wanted to check the book so I got the quote exactly right, but I could not locate my copy, so I went to the library and discovered, unsurprisingly, that is extremely difficult to find an available copy of A Christmas Carol this close to Christmas.)

Merry Christmas, World!