A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful friend and servant, C. D. December, 1843.

Stave One: Marley's Ghost.

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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A Christmas Carol - Stave 1	35.3 MB	25.6 MB	17.7 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 2	32.2 MB	23.7 MB	16.1 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 3	42.2 MB	30.3 MB	21.1 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 4	28.7 MB	20.2 MB	14.4 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 5	11.5 MB	8.1 MB	5.8 MB

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Flight of the Bumblebee

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Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900.

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Advance Australia Fair national anthem of Australia

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"Advance Australia Fair" is the official national anthem of Australia. Created by Peter Dodds McCormick (1834? – October 30, 1916) in c.1878, a Scottish-born school teacher and composer.

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boatswain's bosun's call Piping the Side

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A boatswain's call is a pipe used on naval ships by a boatswain. It is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "bosun's call".

Historically the boatswain's call was used to pass commands to the crew when a voice could not be heard over the sounds of the sea. Because of its high pitch, it could be heard over the activities of the crew and bad weather.

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Barber of Seville

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Barber of Seville by Edison Concert Band (1902). The Barber of Seville, is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The première (under the title Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution) took place on February 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La cenerentola.



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