Ebenezer Scrooge, a local business man, has earned the reputation of being a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner, and bitter old miser - and that's putting it nicely! To top it off Scrooge hates Christmas, calling it 'humbug.' Scrooge reluctantly gives his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay, and while doing so describes Christmas as 'a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December!' At home that night, Scroog