Oliver Twist
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What did the children do in the workhouse?
What did the children do in the workhouse?
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."
Oliver Twist