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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	NITCHEY and CRAGGS had a snug little office on the old battle-ground, where they drove a snug little business, and fought a great many small pitched battles for a great many contending parties. Though it could hardly be said of these conflicts that they were
	running fights—for in truth they generally proceeded at a snail's pace—the part the Firm bad in them came so for within that general denomination, that now they took a shot at this