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speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the
testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the
body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed),
and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish
wanted; which was very self-devotional.  Besides, the board made
periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle
the day before, to say they were going.  The children were neat
and clean to behold, when 
_they_ went; and what more would the
people have!

It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce
any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop.  Oliver Twist's ninth
birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in
stature, and decidedly small in circumference.  But nature or
inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's
(contracted; show full)this narrative (supposing it to possess any at all), if I
ventured to hint just yet, whether the life of Oliver Twist had
this violent termination or no.
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chap_title=Oliver Twist: Chapter 2
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