Oliver Twist
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On your ninth birthday, Mr Bumble arrives at Mrs Mann's baby farm to march you off to the workhouse, past a friend named Dick and a breakfast bowl scraped clean. The board's interview finds you ignorant of doctrine and short of gratitude, and that night, chosen by lot to ask the master for more, you do — and the request gets you locked in a dark room. By evening, a notice offering five pounds for your apprenticeship draws a chimney sweep named Gamfield to the gate.
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