After my first brush with it at Christmas time one year, It became my habit to re-read David Copperfield every Christmas. When I was older I sought to remedy the situation and started to read the books that I had missed while in school. As a result, there were several works that I "skipped" because they were not assigned in my class. While my class was assigned Great Expectations the other class was reading David Copperfield. As a result the advanced readers in the same grade would sometimes read different books by the same author. In the United States we often segregate classes by ability in middle school and high school. His name was Bob Fagin and I took the liberty of using his name, long afterwards, in Oliver Twist."Ĭoming up through school, I was always happy to learn that we would be reading a Dicken's novel in one of my classes. One of them came up, in a ragged apron and a paper cap, on the first Monday morning, to show me the trick of using the string and tying the knot.
Two or three other boys were kept at similar duty down-stairs on similar wages. When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection, I was to paste on each a printed label, and then go on again with more pots. "My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking first with a piece of oil-paper, and then with a piece of blue paper to tie them round with a string and then to clip the paper close and neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop.
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