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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1955)
... v . I CHRISTMAS EVEf Bob Cratchit. Ih father of 1 crippled Tiny Tim, ' joined celebrating chiU dren. ' A eltrk for Scrooge, mean old miser. Bob '' ws much overworked and muck underpaid. i .- :H Tv f 111 THE ghost of Jacob Merley, seven years deed, doing tortured penance for greed hit old partner, appearing to herald, the coming of three Spirih, to warn Scrooge to forsake heertleu way. i l ... CHAELES DICKENS ,,111 iii' i i i r " ?, ' f ! i . ' i i' e a. .' , v . T ! I r!'eve J i . 1 t I ' I -t t' J f5wr fxevef. ILLUSTRATIONS :: BY. DON SINKS; ext; Adapted by:.leonv hArpole : THE Ghost of Chriitmat Pait, firet of the three Spirit, took Scrooge back into hit youth. Fei liwig, hit employer, made Chriitmat eve merry ... itood out to denco with Mrt. Feniwtg. 11 I 1 THE father, bearing giftt to the horn that might hevt been the miter's. It ttormed by the thout fng troop of youngstert. (" Remove me I " Scrooge criod to the Spirit; M I cannot boar itl "J ; 5 r 4 f,. . ; A NO then the Spirit tool Sereoga Me tho )',"" ' w "',, V , o " t bo- not foved gold more; a mother now, happy 'J .' If-."' ' -I'lJ-l. -L'-..i I ' - -J i . li , , sniiwron,ooour nor -on vwiiime eve ana vt . ! THIRD and lait, the Ghott of Chriitmat Yet to Come, black-drapod, stopped the mitor betide , acquaintances. Said one: " Old Scratch has got hit own, hey? " . . ,, Scrooge? , . . Dead? lnmi''JJTfaiiiiiilrMrd1wt i rniii i w iwrrwMrrarrirtrMiw-ri,-tmnrM J mm ii niiiinrm'Hiwii nni I esumenn i """i IT .. . v fft ..' fcFl , , 5C. IN tr.Sy den fto mfier found I C t.- "fJ eurta'.nt" c rUi . ; f ',Vn' -iv",f " ' . . "J. i v f- - v-'f 'f SURPRISED, after, ell this, to aweto and find himself alive, Scrooge sot about mating gen erous amends for a misspent life. Ho found m welcome on Christmas at Nephew Fred's. Ho . . RAISED Cretchlt'i salary, became second father to Tfcy Tins, " Ho knew how to keep 'Chriitmat wall if any man alive possessed the ; knowledge. May that truly bo teld about us(M i 'JLttl - r '"t- i ').--' I rt. v ... . . .- f a ' 1 - - , - - , l- r ,... 7 v -e-r- M.-t(ifi'rea'i