The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge a junk shop in a dirty, tucked away part of London. This area is known for crime and other unsavory activity. The shop is "below a pent-house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, [and] bones" are sold. Piles of junk and scraps fill the dirty shop. Men and women enter the shop, bringing in sacks full of junk to sell. The reader soon learns that three people have brought sacks full of the possessions of a wealthy dead man. We then find out that this man was selfish in life and therefore was alone and forgotten in death. No one cared for this man on his death bed, so he died alone. The two women and one man have come to the shop to sell the rich man's valuable possessions. One woman says that she took a high quality shirt off the dead man's body to sell at the junk shop. The small group happily speaks of how they will profit from the man's death.
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