"Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!"
The final image is a paper cut-out. What you see above is what I removed, and becomes solid black. However, I still like this as a drawing, because it reveals some things that the final black-and-white image doesn't.
I took a tracing of it before I cut it out - just in case of mistakes:
The final image is in my eBook (Scrooge Studies: An Illustrated Exploration of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"), available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Studies-Illustrated-Exploration-Christmas-ebook/dp/B07GZ9QJKX/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538945246&sr=1-1&keywords=Scrooge+Studies.
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