It was a game called Yes and No, in which Scrooge’s nephew had to think of something, and the others had to ask questions to discover what it was. The only possible answer were Yes or No. Scrooge heard that Fred was thinking of a living animal, a wild animal, sometimes an angry animal, which lived in London and walked in the streets. Every time he answered a question, Fred could not stop himself laughing. At last, his wife’s dark, pretty sister started laughing too.