Oliver Twist

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What did the children do in the workhouse? 

 

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The children in the worjkhouse performed manual labor tasks such as picking oakum (fibre used for packing openings in shipbuilding). 

"‘So you’ll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o’clock,’ added the surly one in the white waistcoat."

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Oliver Twist