POOR BUT HAPPY FAMILY
The Cratchit family is described as poor, with scanty clothes and shoes far from waterproof, but they are happy, grateful, and contented with one another.
CRATCHIT FAMILY
There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.