A Christmas CarolMarley 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 Scrooges 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 dont mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door nail. I might have been inclined,