A Christmas Carol: The Second of the Three Spirits

1035.376 - 1060.462 Keith Morrison

In half a minute she entered, flushed but smiling proudly with the pudding, like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quart of ignited brandy, and belighted with Christmas holly stuck into the top. "'Oh, a wonderful pudding,' Bob Cratchit said, and calmly, too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage."