[Scrooge is quiet for a long moment, surprised at what the lad told him.]

[Then a soft smile pulls across his beak.]

Most people actually don't like listening to me telling my old stories. They've heard them all before from unofficial biographies and people spreading them by word of mouth. It's good to be able to tell them myself and have someone listen to them.

[Because they're his stories, no one else's. And the people retelling them will get facts wrong or leave out important bits. Or worse, they make the tales so fantastic that no one believes them or they feel let down when they hear the real stories.]

So thank you, Huey, for letting an old man talk.