A Christmas Carol: The Last of the Spirits

920.353 - 946.333 Keith Morrison

"'I hope he didn't die of anything catching, eh?' said old Joe, stopping his work and looking up. "'Don't you be afraid of that,' returned the woman. "'Ah, you may look through that shirt till your eyes ache, "'but you won't find a hole in it, not a threadbare place. "'It's the best one he had, and a fine one, too. "'He'd have wasted it if it hadn't been for me.' What do you call wasting of it?