1 'I recollect,' said the undertaker.
2 'So they are,' said the undertaker.
3 'So do I,' rejoined the undertaker.
4 'So it is,' acquiesced the undertaker.
5 'No more they have,' acquiesced the undertaker.
6 Let 'em alone for that,' replied the undertaker.
7 Oliver had been sojourning at the undertaker's some three weeks or a month.
8 Mr. Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building.
9 'Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. Bumble.
10 'I have taken the measure of the two women that died last night, Mr. Bumble,' said the undertaker.
11 'I say you'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' repeated Mr. Bumble, tapping the undertaker on the shoulder, in a friendly manner, with his cane.
12 The undertaker, who had just put up the shutters of his shop, was making some entries in his day-book by the light of a most appropriate dismal candle, when Mr. Bumble entered.
13 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
14 Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.
15 It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker's bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the paupers, which fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two's gruel.
16 Though I must say,' continued the undertaker, resuming the current of observations which the beadle had interrupted: 'though I must say, Mr. Bumble, that I have to contend against one very great disadvantage: which is, that all the stout people go off the quickest.
17 Mr. Bumble had been despatched to make various preliminary inquiries, with the view of finding out some captain or other who wanted a cabin-boy without any friends; and was returning to the workhouse to communicate the result of his mission; when he encountered at the gate, no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry, the parochial undertaker.
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