The "Reading Program" version DOES explain the deleted scene where Oliver is seen ducking under a fence. It occurs after Oliver flees Sowerberry's coffin shop, and before his meeting with Dodger. Oliver finds an old ramsackle inn, where a man is putting out the garbage. He is so starved that he squeezes through the fence in hopes of snatching some discarded food from the Inn. A mangy, starving dog bars his teeth at Oliver, and Oliver scrambles back through the fence. The scene was filmed, because there's the picture. A small incident, but it's shame it was cut, as it shows how wretched Oliver's prediciment was, undoubtedly why Goldman put it in, and believe me, his script does not shy away from such things, no more than Dickens.
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