LACK OF GENEROSITY TO CLERK
It is suggested that Scrooge does not provide financial benefit to his clerk, as Scrooge's nephew jokes that if his annual visits put Scrooge in the vein to leave his poor clerk fifty pounds, "that's something." This implies that such generosity is not typical of Scrooge.
SCROOGE
If it only put him in the vein to leave his poor clerk fifty pounds, _that's_ something; and I think I shook him yesterday.'