Oliver Twist - Book the First, Chapter the Tenth

Oliver becomes better acquainted with the Characters of his new Associates, and purchases experience at a high Price. Being a short but very important Chapter in this History

That's right guys. It's a two sentence chapter title. Except the chapter titles of this book are actually summaries and I could probably just read them all instead of the book. It would be quicker. I'm on page 73 now and the last page is 455 so I'm 16% through (and by the end of this chapter it'll be 17% LIKE A BOSS)

So, (dammit, there it is again!), Fagin kicks Dodger and Charley down the stairs when they return empty handed, but Olly (this is how I will refer to him from now on) is all like 'oh yeah, that's "stern morality". Um. No. No it isn't. It's child abuse. Thanks for playing.

Olly begs and begs and finally gets a chance to go outside and pick pockets! Probably every boy's dream (I certainly wouldn't mind the skills that Dodgy and Charley have demonstrated.

Ending the names in -y makes them easier to type and they sound better in my head, so I'm sticking to it.

LOLOL, Olly still hasn't twigged that they're thieves? This will be amusing then.

I wanted to tag the characters but this isn't Facebook

Oh no, 'Mr Brownlow' is so engrossed in his book that he won't notice himself being robbed. Um, except he's in "low London of low London". Is he stupid? What does he expect? And now he thinks it was Oliver (I've changed my mind about 'Olly') and Oliver's running away.

Footnote interlude: Punch kills his wife Judy, and then gets away with it by hanging the hangman. If only getting off a murder charge was that simple.

Oliver has been arrested! But he didn't even do it and when they check they'll find that he doesn't have the handkerchief OH WAIT CORRUPTION NEVER MIND