Oliver goes to london (6)

 

The next day he tried to beg for money, but large signs in  some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . Travellers on the road refused to give him money; they said he was a lazy young dog and didn't deserve anything. Farmers threatened to send their dogs after him. When he waited outside pubds,the pub--owners chased him away because they thought he had come to steal something . Only two people were kind enough to feed him: an old woman and a gate--keeper on the road. If they had not given him some food, he surely would have died like his mother.

 

Early on the seventh morning of his yluney, Oliver finally reached the little town of Barnet , just outside London . Exhausted , he sat down at the side of the road . His feet werebleeding and he was covered in dust. He was too tired even to b eg. Then he noticed that a boy, who had passed him a few minutes before, had returned, and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . After a olong time the boy crossed the road and said to Oliver,

 

'Hillo! What's the matter then?'