BIG BOOK OF CLASSIC CHRISTMAS TALES

Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, orcouldn't have cleared away with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done ina minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed frompublic life forevermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lampswere trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was assnug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ballroom as you would desire tosee on a winter's night.