| Article: | Wit and wisdom of the world In Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol, old Ebenezer Scrooge changes from "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner" to "as good a friend, as good a master and as good a man, as the good old city knew, and any other good old city, town or borough in the good old world." |