'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that. Chapter 3, "Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting A Place Which Would Not Have Been A Sinecure".Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced 'Come, Oliver! Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel that's a very foolish action, Oliver.' Chapter 2, "Treats Of Oliver Twist's Growth, Education, And Board", said by Oliver Twist.Chapter 1, "Treats of the Place where Oliver Twist was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth".Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time.
The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration, - a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence, - and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favor of the latter.He escapes from there and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then apprenticed with an undertaker. Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837–9.
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