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I went back and forth with this one. I liked the beginning like Tom did and thought the cricket/kettle battle was funny, and was with issy in thinking the idea of the baby hitting everything was the funniest bit. It then lost my interest with the rest of that chapter.
Then reading the middle chapter gave me a nice warm fuzzy feeling, although I had just dosed up on my pain medicine. Whatever the reason, I enjoyed it! But it was wearing off in another sitting when I read the final chapter and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much though I think my favourite part of the story was the final few sentences.
All in all I'm glad I read it. It doesn't have any resonating feel-good moral like A Christmas Carol and so I can see why it eventually faded away despite being enormously popular at first printing.
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