... . However, Oliver is punished severely, and he runs away to London. Here he is picked up by Jack Dawkins or the Artful Dodger as he is called. The Artful Dodger is a member of the Jew Fagin's gang of boys. Fagin has trained the boys to become pickpockets. The Artful Dodger takes Oliver to Fagin's den in the London slums, and Oliver, who innocently does not understand that he ... is among criminals, becomes one of Fagin's boys. When Oliver is sent out with The Artful Dodger and another boy on a pickpocket expedition Oliver is so shocked when he realizes what is going on that he and the tw...

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