Strophe

 1   1|   Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy
 2   3|    paper bags and eaten after dinner. The very gold and silver
 3   3|       it apply to any kind of dinner on this day?'' asked Scrooge. ~"
 4   3| potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed,
 5   3|    such a thing. ~At last the dinner was all done, the cloth
 6   3|       preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking
 7   3|       He don't lose much of a dinner.'' ~"Indeed, I think he
 8   3|    think he loses a very good dinner,'' interrupted Scrooge's
 9   3|     because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon
10   4|  repress. ~He sat down to the dinner that had been boarding for
11   5|       Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?'' ~