As The Author I feel I must explain something at this point. See when the boys follow Fagin somewhere they don't just walk they do it very specifically, not that the way they walk is at all planed it just simply is. Fagin starts off in front, followed by the Artful Dodger who walks very uniformly with an air of being above everything else and seemingly oblivious to all things not of a higher class then that of the gang, then comes Charley who attempts Dodger's air though seldom with any success, for not only does he have the most difficult time keeping a straight face, but the other boys follow in compleat disorder and when ever any one of them would get past Charley he hit who ever it happened to be hard on the chest to keep them all behind. Now that we have that straightened out back to the story at hand.