Funny / Oliver Twist

• When a child died in the orphanage, they wouldn’t be brought to justice, partly because the surgeon would testify that he found nothing inside when he opened up the body. The narrator then snarks in brackets that this was very likely indeed.
• ”What a noble illustration of the tender laws of this favored country! They let the paupers go to sleep!”
• Flogging people to death and blowing people's brains out with iron bars being "pastimes" and "very favorite and common recreations" of seafarers.
  • Oliver’s first time putting on a clean shirt being an “unusual gymnastic performance”.
• When Oliver thinks the board is fattening him up to kill him, because they gave him a basin of gruel and a quarter of bread.
• When Mr. Bumble tells Oliver that crying into his gruel is a foolish action, the narrator remarks that it was; there was quite enough water in it already.
• "Oliver stared at the sound, -he might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one."
  • "Strange sounds frighten one."