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It is Scrooge;- aconvertedScrooge; and I, I suppose, am Tiny Tim.
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Obviously, Disney already had their own ready-to-cook central character in Scrooge McDuck.
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So what did his friend John French do for this seasonal Scrooge?
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Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explanation.
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Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it no more.
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My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
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In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
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I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
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But he is a mannerless churl, we will not think of him.
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My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl's hands.
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Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard.
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Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard.
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She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
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But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
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Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
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Would proper ink cost the old skinflint ninepence more per gallon, perhaps?
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Because I know you, and know that you are a regular skinflint.
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It was a skinflint document, and here are a couple of quotations:-
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This old skinflint is opening his bosom and handing me a knife.
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They do say you are a skinflint, yes, and a hard man.
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The Imperial skinflint's idea of a good price was pretty steep.
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She slaves for years to support her two children on Caesar's skinflint wages.
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And I am stuck with Mr. McPherson at the drugstore-anotherskinflint.
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It's fitting that I call Carter what he is, and he's a skinflint.
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You don't know skinflint Plushkin who feeds his people so badly?
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You had her money but you were a bit of a skinflint, weren't you?
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Some even went so far as to call him "a miserly skinflint."
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I don't dare to go to the old skinflint again.
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They say she's a worse old skinflint than her husband.
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A skinflint wasn't the right personality type for Zach.
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Well, up comes the old skinflint in his buggy.
