What message does the ghost of Christmas past bring Ebenezer Scrooge from beyond the grave?

Charles Dickens, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, A Christmas Carol, Part first of the three spirits.

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark that looking out of bed he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.

He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes,

when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters.

So he listened for the hour.

To his great astonishment, the heavy bell went on from six to seven and from seven

to eight, and regularly up to twelve, then stopped. Twelve? It was past two when he went to bed.

The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve.

He touched the spring of his repeater to correct this most preposterous clock.

Its rapid little pulse beat twelve and stopped.

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