How to get money from Ebenezer Scrooge
Get him to leave a gift in his will
THOSE with exquisite taste in Christmas films will be familiar with the scene in “The Muppet Christmas Carol” in which Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his sidekick Beaker solicit Ebenezer Scrooge for a donation to the poor. Scrooge refuses and is then haunted by three ghosts who remind him of the importance of having a charitable heart.
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