Dickens's Christmas Books - complete online versions

The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket On the Hearth, Battle Of Life
& The Haunted Man & the Ghosts's Bargain with Illustrations.

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	THE CHIMES.	155
	character. The pitcher steamed and smoked and reeked like a volcano; and the man who had carried it, was faint. " Mrs. Tngby !" said Trotty, who had been going round and round her, in an ecstasy. " I should say, Chickenstalker—Bless your heart and soul! A Happy New Year, and many of 'em! Mrs. Tugby," said Trotty when he had saluted her; " I should say, Chickenstalker — This is William Fern and Lilian."
	The worthy dame, to his surprise, turned very pale and very
	red.
	" Not Lilian Fern whose mother died in Dorsetshire !" said she. Her uncle answered "Yes," and meeting hastily, they exchanged