... A cooker, dressed in a grey apron, placed the gruel with a spoon to each of the plates. The bowls never needed washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again. Oliver was always hungry. After three months, Oliver was starving that he could hardly sleep at night. One day, one of the strongest boys proposed to ask for more gruel... Oliver was chosen to walk to the cooker that evening and ask for more gruel... Oliver was desperate with hunger and weak with misery. He rose from the table and walked up to the cooker with a plate and a spoon in his hand.
"Please, sir, I want some more," said Oliver.
The cooker turned very pale with anger. He looked at Oliver in surprise. Oliver was paralysed with fear at that moment...
Oliver was sent to the empty cold room. The next morning the master of the workhouse offered five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver as his apprentice to any trade... He walked every morning in a stone yard in the presence of Mr. Bumble. As for society, he was carried every day into the hall when boys dined. The cooker beat him mercilessly as a public warning and example.
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