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Sepheo sa ka mona ke ngola lipale tse monate, tse ka hlabollang,
tse rutang le ho hlokomelisa motho ka lintho tse ling tseo
mohlomong a ka nahanang hore ha se li ‘nete. Ke motho ea ratang
ho qoqela batho lipale tse monate, le ho liqapa, kebe ke li behe ka
tsela eo motho a kekeng a batla ho tloha pelaka, ka Sesotho se
monate se nang le tlotlo-ntsoe. Morero entse e le ho boloka puo
ho isa molokong otlang.
Buka ena ke ea lipale-khutšoe, tseo tsona li tšetseng litaba tsa
lerato le tebileng, lithloriso tse bohloko-hloko, ho lahleheloa ke
tšepo, mahlomola a bophelo, bohloko ba lefu, bohloko ba ho hloka
batsoali, ho lahloa ke beng ka oena, le litaba tse ling tse monate
tseo ‘mali aka thabelang ho li utloa ka leleme la Sesotho. Ho
boetse hona le litaba tseo Basotho ba tummeng ka tsona tseo ha
ngata ho sa buoeng ka tsona eleng boloi, lithokolosi le ho hlorisa
batho ba boloi leho sebelisa liphoofolo le linonyana ho loea.

For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in ‘the house’ who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be ‘farmed,’ or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny’s worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for seven-pence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach and make it uncomfortable. The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was good for children, and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still, and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.