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[00:34.77]	Oliver’s early life
[00:39.55]	Oliver twist was born in a work house,
[00:43.22]	and when he arrived in this hard world,
[00:45.75]	it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes .
[00:50.13]	He lay on a hard little bed and struggled to start breathing
[00:55.74]	Oliver fought his first battle without much assistance from the two people present at his birth. One was an old woman, who was nearly always drunk,
[01:06.80]	and the other was a busy local doctor,
[01:09.08]	who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver’s survival.
[01:13.00]	After all, death is a very common event in the workhouse,
[01:17.19]	where only the poor and homeless lived.
[01:20.17]	However, Oliver managed to draw his first breath,
[01:23.46]	and then announced his arrival to the rest of the work house by crying loudly.
[01:28.12]	His mother raised her pale young face form the pillow and whispered,
[01:33.00]	‘Let me see the child, and die.’
[01:38.09]	The doctor turned away from the fire,
[01:40.33]	where he had warming his hands.
[01:42.45]	‘You must not talk about dying yet,’ he said to her kindly.
[01:47.35]	He gave her the child to hold.
[01:49.68]	Lovingly, she kissed the baby on his forehead with her cold white lips,
[01:55.92]	then stared wildly around the room, fell back - and die.
[02:01.80]
[02:03.18]	‘Poor dear!’ said the nurse,
[02:06.71]	hurriedly putting a green glass bottle back in the pocket of her long skirt.
[02:10.71]	The doctor began to put on his coat.
[02:15.44]	‘The baby is weak and probably have difficulties.’ he said
[02:19.87]	‘If so, give it a little milk to keep it quiet.’
[02:24.27]	Then he looked at the dead woman,
[02:26.41]	‘The mother was a good-looking girl. Where did she come from?’
[02:32.91]	‘She was brought here last night,’ replied the old woman.
[02:37.27]	‘She was found lying in the street.
[02:39.74]	She’d walked some distance, judging by her shoes, which were worn to pieces.
[02:44.79]	Where she came from, where she was going to, or what her name was, nobody knows.’
[02:51.70]
[02:52.57]	The doctor lifted the girl’s left hand. ‘The old story,’
[02:58.03]	he said sadly, shaking his head. ‘No wedding ring, I see. Ah! Good night.’
[03:05.43]
[03:06.76]	And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse.
[03:10.42]	Without clothes, under his first blanket,
[03:13.11]	he could have been the child of a king or a beggar.
[03:17.95]
[03:17.99]	But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes, yellow with age,
[03:22.61]	he looked exactly what he was—an orphan in the work house,
[03:27.00]	ready for a life of misery, hunger and neglect.
[03:32.07]	Oliver cried loudly.
[03:35.54]	If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan,
[03:39.26]	perhaps he would have cried more loudly.
[03:41.35]
[03:43.83]	There was no one to look after the baby in the workhouse,
[03:46.48]	so Oliver was sent to a special ‘baby farm’ nearby.
[03:50.58]	There, he and other thirty children rolled around the floor all day,
[03:55.76]	without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing.
[04:00.05]	Mrs Mann, the old woman who ‘looked after’ them, was very experienced.
[04:06.67]	She knew what was good for children,
[04:08.47]	and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health.
[04:12.07]	She also knew what was good for herself,
[04:14.75]	so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children’s food.
[04:19.95]	The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children,
[04:25.87]	but they always sent the beadle, a kind of local police man,
[04:29.92]	to announce their visit the day before.
[04:31.75]	So, whenever the board arrived, of course,
[04:34.54]	the children were always neat and clean.
[04:37.75]
[04:39.03]	This was the way Oliver was brought up.
[04:40.96]	Consequently, at the age of nine he was a pale, thin child and short for his age.
[04:47.72]	But despite frequent beatings by Mrs Mann, his spirit was strong,
[04:53.16]	which was probably the reason why he managed to reach the age of nine at all.
[04:56.76]
[04:58.68]	On Oliver’s ninth birthday,
[05:00.84]	Mr Bumble the beadle came to the house to see Mrs Mann.
[05:04.94]	Through the front window Mrs Mann saw him at the gate,
[05:08.63]	and turned quickly to the girl who worked with her.
[05:10.90]	‘Quickly! Take Oliver and those others upstairs to be washed!’ she said.
[05:16.76]	Then she ran out to unlock the gate.
[05:18.34]	(It was always kept locked to present official visitors walking in unexpected.)
[05:23.26]	‘I have business to talk about,’
[05:27.25]	Mr Bumble told Mrs Mann as he entered the house.
[05:30.41]	He was a big fat man, often bad-tempered,
[05:33.64]	and was full of self-importance.
[05:36.47]	He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate.
[05:39.00]	Mrs Mann took his hat and coat, placed a chair for him,
[05:44.68]	and expressed great concern for his comfort.
[05:47.41]	‘You’ve had a long walk, Mr Bumble,’ she said, ‘and you must be thirsty.’
[05:52.31]	She took out a bottle form the cupboard.
[05:54.94]	‘No, thank you, Mrs Mann.
[05:56.99]	Not a drop.’ He waved the bottle away.
[06:00.49]	‘Just a little drop, Mr Bumble, with cold water,’
[06:04.66]	said Mrs Mann persuasively.
[06:07.23]	Mr Bumble coughed. ‘What is this?’ he asked,
[06:11.92]	looking at bottle with interest.
[06:14.26]	‘Gin, I keep it for the children’s medicine drink.’
[06:18.76]	‘You gave the children gin, Mrs Mann?’ asked Mr Bumble,
[06:24.04]	watching as she mixed his drink.
[06:26.15]	‘Only with medicine, sir. I don’t like to see them suffer.’
[06:31.21]	‘You are a good woman, Mrs Mann.’
[06:33.84]	Mr Bumble drank half his glass immediately.
[06:37.44]	‘I’ll tell the board about you. Now, the reason why I’m here.
[06:43.39]	Oliver Twist is nine years old today.
[06:46.91]	We’ve never been able to discover anything about his parents.’
[06:51.91]	‘Then how did he get his name?’
[06:55.94]	‘I gave it to him,’ said Mr Bumble proudly.
[06:59.53]	‘We follow the alphabet.
[07:01.14]	The last one was an S-Swubble.
[07:04.82]	Then it was T, so this one is Twist.
[07:08.26]	The next one will be Unwin.
[07:10.67]	Anyway, Oliver Twist is now old enough to return to the workhouse.
[07:15.61]	Bringing him here, please.’
[07:17.62]	While Mrs Mann went to get him, Mr Bumble finished the rest of his gin.
[07:22.78]	Oliver, his face and hands now almost clean, was led into the room.
[07:29.44]	‘Will you come with me, Oliver?’
[07:33.00]	asked Mr Bumble in a loud voice.
[07:35.54]	Oliver was very glad to be free of Mrs Mann’s violence,
[07:40.01]	but he said nothing because she was angrily shaking her finger at him.
[07:43.46]	However, as the gate closed behind Oliver, he burst into tears.
[07:49.19]	He was leaving behind the other children,
[07:51.03]	the only friends he had,
[07:52.84]	and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world.
[07:57.73]
[07:58.86]	Mr Bumble walked on with long steps,
[08:01.46]	with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him.
[08:05.01]	The feeling of contentment produced by gin –and-water had now disappeared,
[08:09.55]	and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.
[08:12.61]
[08:13.62]	Back at the housework, Oliver was taken to see the board. He stood in front of ten fat men who were sitting around a table.
[08:21.20]	‘What’s your name, boy?’
[08:23.33]	asked a particularly fat man with a very round, red face.
[08:27.68]	Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many people,
[08:30.65]	and started to cry.
[08:33.08]	‘Why are you crying?’
[08:34.84]	The beadle hit him on the back,
[08:36.52]	and so naturally Oliver cried even more.
[08:40.08]	‘The boy is a fool,’ one member of the board announced.
[08:43.98]	‘You know you have no father or mother,’
[08:47.27]	said the first man,
[08:48.32]	‘and that you have been brought up with other orphans?’
[08:51.14]	‘Yes, sir,’ replied Oliver, crying bitterly.
[08:55.38]	‘Why is the boy crying?’ repeated the other man, puzzled.
[08:58.99]	‘You have come here to educated,’ continued the fat man,
[09:03.73]	‘so you will start working here tomorrow at six o’clock.
[09:06.85]	Oliver was led away to a large room,
[09:09.26]	on a rough hard bed, he cried himself to sleep.
[09:13.62]
[09:15.42]	The room in the workhouse where the boy were fed was a large stone hall,
[09:20.27]	and at one end the master and two women served the food,
[09:24.17]	this consisted of a bowl of thin soup three times a day,
[09:28.09]	with a piece of bread on Sundays.
[09:29.90]
[09:31.10]	The boys ate everything and were always hungry.
[09:33.83]	The bowls never needed washing.
[09:35.82]	The boy polished them with their snoops until they shone.
[09:39.91]	After mouths of this stow starvation,
[09:43.87]	one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who sleep next to him.
[09:50.25]	He had a wild hungry eye, and the other boys believed him.
[09:56.35]	After a long discussion, they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was chosen.
[10:04.22]
[10:05.87]	The evening arrived;
[10:07.33]	the soup was served, and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds.
[10:11.77]	Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand.
[10:15.50]	He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.
[10:19.22]	‘Please, sir, I want some more.’
[10:22.94]
[10:24.66]	The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale.
[10:28.46]	He looked at the little boy in front of him with amazement.
[10:32.37]	Nobody else spoke.
[10:33.44]
[10:35.01]	‘What?’ he asked at last, in a faint voice.
[10:39.41]	‘Please, sir, replied Oliver, ‘I want some more.’
[10:44.91]	The master hit him with the serving spoon,
[10:47.04]	then seized Oliver’s arms and shouted for the beadle.
[10:50.59]	The beadle came quickly, heard the dreadful news,
[10:53.92]	and immediately ran to tell the board.
[10:56.36]
[10:57.83]	‘He asked for more?’ Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in horror.
[11:04.03]	‘Bumble, is this really true?’
[11:07.35]	‘That boy will be hanged!’ said the man who earlier had called Oliver a fool.
[11:13.62]	‘you see if I’m not right.’
[11:15.20]
[11:16.72]	Oliver was led away to be locked up,
[11:18.89]	and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him to work.
[11:24.10]

[00:34.77]	Oliver' s early life
[00:39.55]	Oliver twist was born in a work house,
[00:43.22]	and when he arrived in this hard world,
[00:45.75]	it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes .
[00:50.13]	He lay on a hard little bed and struggled to start breathing
[00:55.74]	Oliver fought his first battle without much assistance from the two people present at his birth. One was an old woman, who was nearly always drunk,
[01:06.80]	and the other was a busy local doctor,
[01:09.08]	who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver' s survival.
[01:13.00]	After all, death is a very common event in the workhouse,
[01:17.19]	where only the poor and homeless lived.
[01:20.17]	However, Oliver managed to draw his first breath,
[01:23.46]	and then announced his arrival to the rest of the work house by crying loudly.
[01:28.12]	His mother raised her pale young face form the pillow and whispered,
[01:33.00]	' Let me see the child, and die.'
[01:38.09]	The doctor turned away from the fire,
[01:40.33]	where he had warming his hands.
[01:42.45]	' You must not talk about dying yet,' he said to her kindly.
[01:47.35]	He gave her the child to hold.
[01:49.68]	Lovingly, she kissed the baby on his forehead with her cold white lips,
[01:55.92]	then stared wildly around the room, fell back and die.
[02:01.80]
[02:03.18]	' Poor dear!' said the nurse,
[02:06.71]	hurriedly putting a green glass bottle back in the pocket of her long skirt.
[02:10.71]	The doctor began to put on his coat.
[02:15.44]	' The baby is weak and probably have difficulties.' he said
[02:19.87]	' If so, give it a little milk to keep it quiet.'
[02:24.27]	Then he looked at the dead woman,
[02:26.41]	' The mother was a goodlooking girl. Where did she come from?'
[02:32.91]	' She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman.
[02:37.27]	' She was found lying in the street.
[02:39.74]	She' d walked some distance, judging by her shoes, which were worn to pieces.
[02:44.79]	Where she came from, where she was going to, or what her name was, nobody knows.'
[02:51.70]
[02:52.57]	The doctor lifted the girl' s left hand. ' The old story,'
[02:58.03]	he said sadly, shaking his head. ' No wedding ring, I see. Ah! Good night.'
[03:05.43]
[03:06.76]	And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse.
[03:10.42]	Without clothes, under his first blanket,
[03:13.11]	he could have been the child of a king or a beggar.
[03:17.95]
[03:17.99]	But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes, yellow with age,
[03:22.61]	he looked exactly what he was an orphan in the work house,
[03:27.00]	ready for a life of misery, hunger and neglect.
[03:32.07]	Oliver cried loudly.
[03:35.54]	If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan,
[03:39.26]	perhaps he would have cried more loudly.
[03:41.35]
[03:43.83]	There was no one to look after the baby in the workhouse,
[03:46.48]	so Oliver was sent to a special ' baby farm' nearby.
[03:50.58]	There, he and other thirty children rolled around the floor all day,
[03:55.76]	without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing.
[04:00.05]	Mrs Mann, the old woman who ' looked after' them, was very experienced.
[04:06.67]	She knew what was good for children,
[04:08.47]	and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health.
[04:12.07]	She also knew what was good for herself,
[04:14.75]	so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children' s food.
[04:19.95]	The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children,
[04:25.87]	but they always sent the beadle, a kind of local police man,
[04:29.92]	to announce their visit the day before.
[04:31.75]	So, whenever the board arrived, of course,
[04:34.54]	the children were always neat and clean.
[04:37.75]
[04:39.03]	This was the way Oliver was brought up.
[04:40.96]	Consequently, at the age of nine he was a pale, thin child and short for his age.
[04:47.72]	But despite frequent beatings by Mrs Mann, his spirit was strong,
[04:53.16]	which was probably the reason why he managed to reach the age of nine at all.
[04:56.76]
[04:58.68]	On Oliver' s ninth birthday,
[05:00.84]	Mr Bumble the beadle came to the house to see Mrs Mann.
[05:04.94]	Through the front window Mrs Mann saw him at the gate,
[05:08.63]	and turned quickly to the girl who worked with her.
[05:10.90]	' Quickly! Take Oliver and those others upstairs to be washed!' she said.
[05:16.76]	Then she ran out to unlock the gate.
[05:18.34]	It was always kept locked to present official visitors walking in unexpected.
[05:23.26]	' I have business to talk about,'
[05:27.25]	Mr Bumble told Mrs Mann as he entered the house.
[05:30.41]	He was a big fat man, often badtempered,
[05:33.64]	and was full of selfimportance.
[05:36.47]	He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate.
[05:39.00]	Mrs Mann took his hat and coat, placed a chair for him,
[05:44.68]	and expressed great concern for his comfort.
[05:47.41]	' You' ve had a long walk, Mr Bumble,' she said, ' and you must be thirsty.'
[05:52.31]	She took out a bottle form the cupboard.
[05:54.94]	' No, thank you, Mrs Mann.
[05:56.99]	Not a drop.' He waved the bottle away.
[06:00.49]	' Just a little drop, Mr Bumble, with cold water,'
[06:04.66]	said Mrs Mann persuasively.
[06:07.23]	Mr Bumble coughed. ' What is this?' he asked,
[06:11.92]	looking at bottle with interest.
[06:14.26]	' Gin, I keep it for the children' s medicine drink.'
[06:18.76]	' You gave the children gin, Mrs Mann?' asked Mr Bumble,
[06:24.04]	watching as she mixed his drink.
[06:26.15]	' Only with medicine, sir. I don' t like to see them suffer.'
[06:31.21]	' You are a good woman, Mrs Mann.'
[06:33.84]	Mr Bumble drank half his glass immediately.
[06:37.44]	' I' ll tell the board about you. Now, the reason why I' m here.
[06:43.39]	Oliver Twist is nine years old today.
[06:46.91]	We' ve never been able to discover anything about his parents.'
[06:51.91]	' Then how did he get his name?'
[06:55.94]	' I gave it to him,' said Mr Bumble proudly.
[06:59.53]	' We follow the alphabet.
[07:01.14]	The last one was an SSwubble.
[07:04.82]	Then it was T, so this one is Twist.
[07:08.26]	The next one will be Unwin.
[07:10.67]	Anyway, Oliver Twist is now old enough to return to the workhouse.
[07:15.61]	Bringing him here, please.'
[07:17.62]	While Mrs Mann went to get him, Mr Bumble finished the rest of his gin.
[07:22.78]	Oliver, his face and hands now almost clean, was led into the room.
[07:29.44]	' Will you come with me, Oliver?'
[07:33.00]	asked Mr Bumble in a loud voice.
[07:35.54]	Oliver was very glad to be free of Mrs Mann' s violence,
[07:40.01]	but he said nothing because she was angrily shaking her finger at him.
[07:43.46]	However, as the gate closed behind Oliver, he burst into tears.
[07:49.19]	He was leaving behind the other children,
[07:51.03]	the only friends he had,
[07:52.84]	and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world.
[07:57.73]
[07:58.86]	Mr Bumble walked on with long steps,
[08:01.46]	with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him.
[08:05.01]	The feeling of contentment produced by gin andwater had now disappeared,
[08:09.55]	and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.
[08:12.61]
[08:13.62]	Back at the housework, Oliver was taken to see the board. He stood in front of ten fat men who were sitting around a table.
[08:21.20]	' What' s your name, boy?'
[08:23.33]	asked a particularly fat man with a very round, red face.
[08:27.68]	Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many people,
[08:30.65]	and started to cry.
[08:33.08]	' Why are you crying?'
[08:34.84]	The beadle hit him on the back,
[08:36.52]	and so naturally Oliver cried even more.
[08:40.08]	' The boy is a fool,' one member of the board announced.
[08:43.98]	' You know you have no father or mother,'
[08:47.27]	said the first man,
[08:48.32]	' and that you have been brought up with other orphans?'
[08:51.14]	' Yes, sir,' replied Oliver, crying bitterly.
[08:55.38]	' Why is the boy crying?' repeated the other man, puzzled.
[08:58.99]	' You have come here to educated,' continued the fat man,
[09:03.73]	' so you will start working here tomorrow at six o' clock.
[09:06.85]	Oliver was led away to a large room,
[09:09.26]	on a rough hard bed, he cried himself to sleep.
[09:13.62]
[09:15.42]	The room in the workhouse where the boy were fed was a large stone hall,
[09:20.27]	and at one end the master and two women served the food,
[09:24.17]	this consisted of a bowl of thin soup three times a day,
[09:28.09]	with a piece of bread on Sundays.
[09:29.90]
[09:31.10]	The boys ate everything and were always hungry.
[09:33.83]	The bowls never needed washing.
[09:35.82]	The boy polished them with their snoops until they shone.
[09:39.91]	After mouths of this stow starvation,
[09:43.87]	one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who sleep next to him.
[09:50.25]	He had a wild hungry eye, and the other boys believed him.
[09:56.35]	After a long discussion, they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was chosen.
[10:04.22]
[10:05.87]	The evening arrived
[10:07.33]	the soup was served, and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds.
[10:11.77]	Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand.
[10:15.50]	He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.
[10:19.22]	' Please, sir, I want some more.'
[10:22.94]
[10:24.66]	The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale.
[10:28.46]	He looked at the little boy in front of him with amazement.
[10:32.37]	Nobody else spoke.
[10:33.44]
[10:35.01]	' What?' he asked at last, in a faint voice.
[10:39.41]	' Please, sir, replied Oliver, ' I want some more.'
[10:44.91]	The master hit him with the serving spoon,
[10:47.04]	then seized Oliver' s arms and shouted for the beadle.
[10:50.59]	The beadle came quickly, heard the dreadful news,
[10:53.92]	and immediately ran to tell the board.
[10:56.36]
[10:57.83]	' He asked for more?' Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in horror.
[11:04.03]	' Bumble, is this really true?'
[11:07.35]	' That boy will be hanged!' said the man who earlier had called Oliver a fool.
[11:13.62]	' you see if I' m not right.'
[11:15.20]
[11:16.72]	Oliver was led away to be locked up,
[11:18.89]	and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him to work.
[11:24.10]

[00:34.77]	Oliver' s early life
[00:39.55]	Oliver twist was born in a work house,
[00:43.22]	and when he arrived in this hard world,
[00:45.75]	it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes .
[00:50.13]	He lay on a hard little bed and struggled to start breathing
[00:55.74]	Oliver fought his first battle without much assistance from the two people present at his birth. One was an old woman, who was nearly always drunk,
[01:06.80]	and the other was a busy local doctor,
[01:09.08]	who was not paid enough to be very interested in Oliver' s survival.
[01:13.00]	After all, death is a very common event in the workhouse,
[01:17.19]	where only the poor and homeless lived.
[01:20.17]	However, Oliver managed to draw his first breath,
[01:23.46]	and then announced his arrival to the rest of the work house by crying loudly.
[01:28.12]	His mother raised her pale young face form the pillow and whispered,
[01:33.00]	' Let me see the child, and die.'
[01:38.09]	The doctor turned away from the fire,
[01:40.33]	where he had warming his hands.
[01:42.45]	' You must not talk about dying yet,' he said to her kindly.
[01:47.35]	He gave her the child to hold.
[01:49.68]	Lovingly, she kissed the baby on his forehead with her cold white lips,
[01:55.92]	then stared wildly around the room, fell back and die.
[02:01.80]
[02:03.18]	' Poor dear!' said the nurse,
[02:06.71]	hurriedly putting a green glass bottle back in the pocket of her long skirt.
[02:10.71]	The doctor began to put on his coat.
[02:15.44]	' The baby is weak and probably have difficulties.' he said
[02:19.87]	' If so, give it a little milk to keep it quiet.'
[02:24.27]	Then he looked at the dead woman,
[02:26.41]	' The mother was a goodlooking girl. Where did she come from?'
[02:32.91]	' She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman.
[02:37.27]	' She was found lying in the street.
[02:39.74]	She' d walked some distance, judging by her shoes, which were worn to pieces.
[02:44.79]	Where she came from, where she was going to, or what her name was, nobody knows.'
[02:51.70]
[02:52.57]	The doctor lifted the girl' s left hand. ' The old story,'
[02:58.03]	he said sadly, shaking his head. ' No wedding ring, I see. Ah! Good night.'
[03:05.43]
[03:06.76]	And so Oliver was left with only the drunken nurse.
[03:10.42]	Without clothes, under his first blanket,
[03:13.11]	he could have been the child of a king or a beggar.
[03:17.95]
[03:17.99]	But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes, yellow with age,
[03:22.61]	he looked exactly what he was an orphan in the work house,
[03:27.00]	ready for a life of misery, hunger and neglect.
[03:32.07]	Oliver cried loudly.
[03:35.54]	If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan,
[03:39.26]	perhaps he would have cried more loudly.
[03:41.35]
[03:43.83]	There was no one to look after the baby in the workhouse,
[03:46.48]	so Oliver was sent to a special ' baby farm' nearby.
[03:50.58]	There, he and other thirty children rolled around the floor all day,
[03:55.76]	without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing.
[04:00.05]	Mrs Mann, the old woman who ' looked after' them, was very experienced.
[04:06.67]	She knew what was good for children,
[04:08.47]	and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health.
[04:12.07]	She also knew what was good for herself,
[04:14.75]	so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children' s food.
[04:19.95]	The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children,
[04:25.87]	but they always sent the beadle, a kind of local police man,
[04:29.92]	to announce their visit the day before.
[04:31.75]	So, whenever the board arrived, of course,
[04:34.54]	the children were always neat and clean.
[04:37.75]
[04:39.03]	This was the way Oliver was brought up.
[04:40.96]	Consequently, at the age of nine he was a pale, thin child and short for his age.
[04:47.72]	But despite frequent beatings by Mrs Mann, his spirit was strong,
[04:53.16]	which was probably the reason why he managed to reach the age of nine at all.
[04:56.76]
[04:58.68]	On Oliver' s ninth birthday,
[05:00.84]	Mr Bumble the beadle came to the house to see Mrs Mann.
[05:04.94]	Through the front window Mrs Mann saw him at the gate,
[05:08.63]	and turned quickly to the girl who worked with her.
[05:10.90]	' Quickly! Take Oliver and those others upstairs to be washed!' she said.
[05:16.76]	Then she ran out to unlock the gate.
[05:18.34]	It was always kept locked to present official visitors walking in unexpected.
[05:23.26]	' I have business to talk about,'
[05:27.25]	Mr Bumble told Mrs Mann as he entered the house.
[05:30.41]	He was a big fat man, often badtempered,
[05:33.64]	and was full of selfimportance.
[05:36.47]	He did not like to be kept waiting at a locked gate.
[05:39.00]	Mrs Mann took his hat and coat, placed a chair for him,
[05:44.68]	and expressed great concern for his comfort.
[05:47.41]	' You' ve had a long walk, Mr Bumble,' she said, ' and you must be thirsty.'
[05:52.31]	She took out a bottle form the cupboard.
[05:54.94]	' No, thank you, Mrs Mann.
[05:56.99]	Not a drop.' He waved the bottle away.
[06:00.49]	' Just a little drop, Mr Bumble, with cold water,'
[06:04.66]	said Mrs Mann persuasively.
[06:07.23]	Mr Bumble coughed. ' What is this?' he asked,
[06:11.92]	looking at bottle with interest.
[06:14.26]	' Gin, I keep it for the children' s medicine drink.'
[06:18.76]	' You gave the children gin, Mrs Mann?' asked Mr Bumble,
[06:24.04]	watching as she mixed his drink.
[06:26.15]	' Only with medicine, sir. I don' t like to see them suffer.'
[06:31.21]	' You are a good woman, Mrs Mann.'
[06:33.84]	Mr Bumble drank half his glass immediately.
[06:37.44]	' I' ll tell the board about you. Now, the reason why I' m here.
[06:43.39]	Oliver Twist is nine years old today.
[06:46.91]	We' ve never been able to discover anything about his parents.'
[06:51.91]	' Then how did he get his name?'
[06:55.94]	' I gave it to him,' said Mr Bumble proudly.
[06:59.53]	' We follow the alphabet.
[07:01.14]	The last one was an SSwubble.
[07:04.82]	Then it was T, so this one is Twist.
[07:08.26]	The next one will be Unwin.
[07:10.67]	Anyway, Oliver Twist is now old enough to return to the workhouse.
[07:15.61]	Bringing him here, please.'
[07:17.62]	While Mrs Mann went to get him, Mr Bumble finished the rest of his gin.
[07:22.78]	Oliver, his face and hands now almost clean, was led into the room.
[07:29.44]	' Will you come with me, Oliver?'
[07:33.00]	asked Mr Bumble in a loud voice.
[07:35.54]	Oliver was very glad to be free of Mrs Mann' s violence,
[07:40.01]	but he said nothing because she was angrily shaking her finger at him.
[07:43.46]	However, as the gate closed behind Oliver, he burst into tears.
[07:49.19]	He was leaving behind the other children,
[07:51.03]	the only friends he had,
[07:52.84]	and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world.
[07:57.73]
[07:58.86]	Mr Bumble walked on with long steps,
[08:01.46]	with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him.
[08:05.01]	The feeling of contentment produced by gin andwater had now disappeared,
[08:09.55]	and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.
[08:12.61]
[08:13.62]	Back at the housework, Oliver was taken to see the board. He stood in front of ten fat men who were sitting around a table.
[08:21.20]	' What' s your name, boy?'
[08:23.33]	asked a particularly fat man with a very round, red face.
[08:27.68]	Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many people,
[08:30.65]	and started to cry.
[08:33.08]	' Why are you crying?'
[08:34.84]	The beadle hit him on the back,
[08:36.52]	and so naturally Oliver cried even more.
[08:40.08]	' The boy is a fool,' one member of the board announced.
[08:43.98]	' You know you have no father or mother,'
[08:47.27]	said the first man,
[08:48.32]	' and that you have been brought up with other orphans?'
[08:51.14]	' Yes, sir,' replied Oliver, crying bitterly.
[08:55.38]	' Why is the boy crying?' repeated the other man, puzzled.
[08:58.99]	' You have come here to educated,' continued the fat man,
[09:03.73]	' so you will start working here tomorrow at six o' clock.
[09:06.85]	Oliver was led away to a large room,
[09:09.26]	on a rough hard bed, he cried himself to sleep.
[09:13.62]
[09:15.42]	The room in the workhouse where the boy were fed was a large stone hall,
[09:20.27]	and at one end the master and two women served the food,
[09:24.17]	this consisted of a bowl of thin soup three times a day,
[09:28.09]	with a piece of bread on Sundays.
[09:29.90]
[09:31.10]	The boys ate everything and were always hungry.
[09:33.83]	The bowls never needed washing.
[09:35.82]	The boy polished them with their snoops until they shone.
[09:39.91]	After mouths of this stow starvation,
[09:43.87]	one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who sleep next to him.
[09:50.25]	He had a wild hungry eye, and the other boys believed him.
[09:56.35]	After a long discussion, they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was chosen.
[10:04.22]
[10:05.87]	The evening arrived
[10:07.33]	the soup was served, and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds.
[10:11.77]	Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand.
[10:15.50]	He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.
[10:19.22]	' Please, sir, I want some more.'
[10:22.94]
[10:24.66]	The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale.
[10:28.46]	He looked at the little boy in front of him with amazement.
[10:32.37]	Nobody else spoke.
[10:33.44]
[10:35.01]	' What?' he asked at last, in a faint voice.
[10:39.41]	' Please, sir, replied Oliver, ' I want some more.'
[10:44.91]	The master hit him with the serving spoon,
[10:47.04]	then seized Oliver' s arms and shouted for the beadle.
[10:50.59]	The beadle came quickly, heard the dreadful news,
[10:53.92]	and immediately ran to tell the board.
[10:56.36]
[10:57.83]	' He asked for more?' Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in horror.
[11:04.03]	' Bumble, is this really true?'
[11:07.35]	' That boy will be hanged!' said the man who earlier had called Oliver a fool.
[11:13.62]	' you see if I' m not right.'
[11:15.20]
[11:16.72]	Oliver was led away to be locked up,
[11:18.89]	and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him to work.
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