Although I am not dispod to maintain that the being born in a workhou, is in itlf the most fortunate and enviable circumstanbsp;that bsp;possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instanbsp;it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fabsp;is, that there was siderable difficulty in indug Oliver to take upon himlf the offibsp;of respiration,-a troublesome practibsp;but one whibsp; has rendered necessary to our easy existenbsp;and for some time he lay gasping on a little flobsp;mattress, rather unequally poid between this world and the : the balanbsp;being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienbsp;nurs, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most iably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowanbsp;of beer; and a parish surgeon who did subsp;matters by trabsp;Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to adverti to the inmates of the workhou the fabsp;of a new burden having been impod upon the parish, by tting up as loud a bsp;as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possd of that very uful appendage, a voibsp;for a mubsp;longer spabsp;of time than three minutes and a quarter.
Although I am not dispod to maintain that the being born in a workhou, is in itlf the most fortunate and enviable circumstanbsp;that bsp;possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instanbsp;it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fabsp;is, that there was siderable difficulty in indug Oliver to take upon himlf the offibsp;of respiration,-a troublesome practibsp;but one whibsp; has rendered necessary to our easy existenbsp;and for some time he lay gasping on a little flobsp;mattress, rather unequally poid between this world and the : the balanbsp;being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienbsp;nurs, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most iably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowanbsp;of beer; and a parish surgeon who did subsp;matters by trabsp;Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to adverti to the inmates of the workhou the fabsp;of a new burden having been impod upon the parish, by tting up as loud a bsp;as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possd of that very uful appendage, a voibsp;for a mubsp;longer spabsp;of time than three minutes and a quarter.