Scrooge Objects to Christmas. Out upon merrry Christmas! If I could work my will, said Scrooge, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart! Illustration by Harry Furniss for the novella A Christmas Carol from The Christmas Books by Charles Dickens, published in The Testimonial Edition of 1910.