This English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is an elementary-level Macmillan Reader. '"I don't have a merry Christmas," said Scrooge. "Christmas is nonsense. It's humbug! I don't believe in Christmas. I'm not giving money to anyone else so they can have a merry Christmas."' A retelling for students of English of Dickens's famous story of the transformation of the cold-hearted miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge.