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Oliver Twist

CHAPTER XIX
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The first we've both got; the second you must find us.' 'A boy!' exclaimed the Jew.

'Oh! then it's a panel, eh ?' 'Never mind wot it is!' replied Sikes.

'I want a boy, and he musn't be a big 'un.

Lord!' said Mr.Sikes, reflectively, 'if I'd only got that young boy of Ned, the chimbley-sweeper's! He kept him small on purpose, and let him out by the job.

But the father gets lagged; and then the Juvenile Delinquent Society comes, and takes the boy away from a trade where he was earning money, teaches him to read and write, and in time makes a 'prentice of him.


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