![]() The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience she knew what was good for children and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. ![]() Sevenpence-halfpenny’s worth per week is a good round diet for a child a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. ![]() Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be ‘farmed,’ or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in ‘the house’ who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. ![]()
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