Identifier: davidcopperfield01dicke (find matches)
Title: David Copperfield
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
Subjects: Boys Orphans Young men Child labor
Publisher: Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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My friendly Waiter and I. OF THEUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DAVID COPPERFIELD. 103 I said, near London, which was all I knew. Oh, my eye ! he said, looking very low-spirited, I am sorrvfor that. Why? I asked him. Oh Lord ! he said, shaking his head, thats the school wherathey broke the boys ribs—two ribs—a little boy he was. I shouldsay he was—^let me see—how old are you, about ? I told him between eight and nine—almost nine. Thats just his age, he said. He was eight years and sixmonths old w hen they broke his first rib; eight years and eightmonths old when they broke his second, and did for him. I could not disguise from myself, or from the w^aiter, that this wasan uncomfortable coincidence, and inquired how it was done. Hisanswer was not cheering to my spirits, for it consisted of two dismalwords, With whopping. The blowing of the coach-horn in the yard was a seasonablediversion, which made me get up and hesitatingly enquire, in themingled pride and difi&dence of having a

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